Piers Morgan has hit out at vegans claiming they 'don't care' about the billions of bees and insects that are killed by the commercial farming of avocados and almonds.

The Good Morning Britain presenter scrutinised the methods by which popular food items eaten by vegans and vegetarians were reared during the show today.

Critiquing the process that sees bee hives transported to farms in order to pollinate the crops in a technique called migratory beekeeping, the presenter claimed that vegans 'don't care about the little guys'.

During the show he told viewers: 'The vegans don't care about the little guys, the bees that get killed.

The presenter critiqued the pollination process that sees bee hives transported to farms in order to pollinate crops

'The billions of bees that get killed every year, the billions of insects that get killed in the pollination process, and they don't care.

'And they don't care about the oysters and they don't care about the scallops, they don't care about any of those little guys.

'They only care about the big animals but these little guys they are animals too. All insects are animals. A bee, billions of those little things are killed every year so that these vegans and vegetarians can have their avocados and almonds flown on jets'.

The presenter's comments come days after he told viewers that 'woke' non-meat eaters were unethical because of the transport required to import the large amounts of nuts and grains across the world to fuel their plant-based diet.

During the show he said: 'My belief is that eating meat helps sustains the planet and that vegans are unethical because they all eat almonds, which kills millions of bees.'

The presenter, who has remained an outspoken critic of the vegan community, added: 'If I get discriminated against for being a meat-eater, is that a breach of my ethical beliefs.

The presenter claimed that vegans and vegetarians did not care about the 'billions of bees that gt killed every year'

'If my belief is eating meat is good for the planet and sustainability - and a strict vegan diet is bad for you - if I was to storm a vegan restaurant and demand meat, would they discriminate against me. Am I allowed to go to court?'

Piers' comments refer to the millions of bees that were brought into California, where more than 80 per cent of the almonds consumed on earth are grown, in order to gather pollen and nectar from crops.

In 2018, the Washington Post reported that farmers were employing migratory beekeeping in order to meet the demand of growing popular fruits and vegetables.

The process sees farmers use large trucks to transport bee hives into farms, often across long distances, in order to pollinate the crops and does involve cruelty to bees, according to the Scientific American.

The presenter explained that it was 'these little guy' who were being killed every year so that vegans and vegetarians could have their avocados and almonds flown on jets

According to the Scientific American: 'Forcing bees to gather pollen and nectar from vast swaths of a single crop deprives them of the far more diverse and nourishing diet provided by wild habitats.

'The migration also continually boomerangs honeybees between times of plenty and borderline starvation.'

In an episode of the BBC show QI in 2018, quiz master Sandi Toksvig shocked her fellow panellists when she said almonds, avocados, kiwis, melons and butternut squash were not strict vegan food items.

During the show she said: 'Because they are so difficult to cultivate naturally all of these crops rely on bees which are placed on the back of trucks on very long distances across the country. It is called migratory beekeeping and it's an unnatural use of animals.'