has received £10,000 from the UK's Channel 4
, after they failed to ask permission to use a Smiths
song to promote a Gordon Ramsey
cookery program, NME
reports.The TV station have paid the singer in recognition of its error after it used Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want in a Gordon Ramsey's "Christmas Cookalong
" program in 2011.Morrisey has donated the funds to PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
) to fund a campaign against department store Fortnum and Mason for stocking foie gras. The singer has issued the following statement:"Ramsay may very well stick his head in his microwave when he hears that the money I received from Channel 4 because one of my songs used to promote his Christmas show is being donated to PETA to fight foie gras. Foie gras is so cruelly produced that he'd be against it if he had an ethical bone in his body."