As you may know, Morrissey's just-rescheduled U.S. tour was set to kick-off last night with a performance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Morrissey canceled on Kimmel due to the show's coinciding guests, the cast of the duck hunting reality show "Duck Dynasty".

This lead Kimmel to mock Moz on-air, broadcasting a faux "Duck Dynasty" clip, in which the show's cast goes hunting for carrots and broccoli (and calls vegetables "yuppie food"). Kimmel also joked that he kept "Duck Dynasty" on the show because "they have guns and Morrissey doesn't," and that Morrissey "keeps finding ways to depress us."

Morrissey has now issued the following statement in response to Kimmel:

I was disappointed with last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Show wherein our smiling host managed to ridicule depression (70% of Americans have experienced depression according to the National Institute of Mental Health). He then found time to ridicule healthy eating (the obesity epidemic in the U.S. costs $147 billion per year in medical expenditure), and he also ridiculed the notion that animals should be entitled to the possession of their own lives. Furthermore, he found time to jokingly promote gun-ownership - hugely amusing for the parents at Sandy Hook, no doubt. He also promoted his special guests Duck Dynasty – who kill beings for fun. None of the above issues are, of course, as important as Jimmy Kimmel himself, who has finally revealed his show to have an overwhelming loss of meaning. Tune in and relive the intellectual fog of the 1950s.

Update: Morrissey has slightly updated his statement. It previously read, "70% of Americans suffer from depression," rather than "70% of Americans have experienced depression."

Watch the Smiths play "Meat Is Murder", plus Kimmel's "Duck Dynasty" clip: