Jeremy Clarkson is getting a Christmas gift from Peta (Picture: WireImage)
Jeremy Clarkson has felt the wrath of Peta after he claimed a ‘clean, green’ planet would be joyless.
The Clarkson’s Farm star, 63, raised eyebrows with a recent column where he said to achieve a green planet people might have to ‘live on pills made by AI machines in solar-powered factories’ instead of food.
‘Compared, say, with carving a lovely piece of beef and opening the oven door to find your Yorkshire puddings are perfect for once. Who wants to live in a world without gravy?’
Animal rights organisation Peta has now shared their thoughts on Jeremy’s remarks – by sending him a disturbing picture book.
At first glance the book – titled The Secret Lives of Animals – looks as though it’s for children, filled with nursery rhymes and bright cartoon critters.
But with a closer look, the images depict shorn rabbits, lab mice being blinded by product testing and a depressed dolphin trapped in a tank.
The book appears sweet at first glance (Picture: Peta US)
But it tells how rabbits are killed for their fur through rhymes (Picture: Peta US)
Peta claims it is sending the book to Jeremy in the hopes he’ll turn vegan (Picture: Getty Images)
One rhyme showing a cartoon bunny has the lyrics: ‘At around this time tomorrow/ You’ll be skinned, then killed/ By humans who’ll feel no sorrow/ For the blood you’ve spilled.’
Another has a spin on Three Blind Mice, writing ‘this is their vile sacrifice/ The pain, stress and all the rest/ That goes with a product test.’
Peta’s Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen sent the book to Jeremy along with a letter, sharing the ‘shocking truths and inescapable logic.’
The Three Blind Mice nursery rhyme takes an even more disturbing route than the original (Picture: Peta US)
She sarcastically added that the book was ‘simple’ enough that ‘even someone who… mourns the death of their family dog but calls vegans “lunatics” for caring about the mass slaughter of billions of chickens, pigs, and cows can understand the message.’
Infamously in animal rights circles, Jeremy previously said there are ‘lunatics in every society’ when asked in a press conference for Clarkson’s Farm whether he was worried about backlash from vegans for sending his farm animals to slaughter.
Peta also hopes that the book will ‘inspire’ Jeremy to ‘include vegan options at the Diddly Squat Farm shop.’
The animal rights charity called Jeremy out for caring about family pets but calling vegans ‘lunatics’ (Picture: Getty Images)
Elisa added in a statement that it might take a ‘Christmas miracle’ for Jeremy to ‘admit he was wrong,’ but ‘maybe this shocking stocking stuffer can help give him the push he needs towards animal- and eco-friendly foods in 2024.’
It comes after Jeremy’s latest column where he called veganism a ‘noble quest’ but ‘what they will lose if they are ever successful in their endeavours is the one thing that makes life worth living. Joy.’
‘‘I watch people now, chewing on grass, like cows, and pausing occasionally to sip from their lumpy green juice, and they always look so desperately pale and unhappy compared with the slightly tipsy person queueing for some late-night fish and chips,’ he added.
Peta has previously sparked shock campaigns against the likes of Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, urging them to quit I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in protest at the use of live animals in Bushtucker trials.
Peta previously called for Ant and Dec to quit I’m A Celeb over its use of live animals in challenges (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)
And taking things even further this year, Peta founder Ingrid Newkirk declared she would send I’m A Celebrity a piece of her own rotting flesh in protest at their animal-eating trials.
‘I’m A Celebrity is bottom of the barrel TV so I’m sending them my bottom when I die. It’s what they deserve,’ Ingrid told Metro.co.uk.
‘A lot of people are now running away from animal-derived foods, but their producers are so out of touch, that they’re still including wild animals’ bits and pieces on the menu.
‘The producers remind me of snickering schoolboys. Using animals in trials is mean, and disgusting. There is no need for animals to needlessly die, or suffer. They should be ashamed.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Jeremy Clarkson for comment.
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