Back in 2011, Channel 4 in the UK used the Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" to promote Gordon Ramsay's meat-packed "Christmas Cookalong Live". But they didn't ask Morrissey's permission. Moz earned a £10,000 payout from Channel 4 for the unauthorized song use.

Today, The Guardian reports that Morrissey has donated the entire sum of money to PETA, for use in the animal rights organization's campaign against the disgusting delicacy known as foie gras.

The PETA advertisements will go after the London-based department store Fortnum & Mason, which sells the cruelly produced duck meat (animals are force-fed to eat more than normal). Back in May, Moz posted a message on True-to-You asking fans to write the company and call for a ban on foie gras.

Morrissey offered the following statement (via The Guardian):

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.

Meanwhile, PETA's associate director Mimi Bekhechi said, "With this generous gift, Morrissey is literally putting his money where his mouth is and combating cruelty to animals."

Watch Morrissey perform "Meat Is Murder" last year, and check out an undercover PETA video about foie gras narrated by Kate Winslet.