Jeremy Clarkson made a “horrific” death admission about Diddly Squat Farm. The former Grand Tour presenter is gearing up for FarmFest next weekend, which will invite a whole host of celebrity farmers and members of the public to celebrate the UK’s agriculture industry. But Jeremy admitted in an interview with The Times that it hasn’t been plain sailing in recent months.
He said: “Bad days on the farm are horrific. Your piglets are being crushed or your cattle go down with TB or whatever it might be. A really bad day is just truly awful.” Clarkson, however, is used to seeing the deaths of animals on his farm, and has adopted a group of rabbits to use as meat – which he is surprisingly blasé about.
He said: “Some people say, oh, you can’t eat rabbits. I mean, why not?” He leaves the butchery “to someone else”, but said: “I think there was a backlash against rabbit farming because anti-fur campaigners like Naomi Campbell thought that rabbit farms had been set up for the fur, not the meat.
“Actually, I haven’t a clue what to do with the fur.”
Instead, Jeremy cooks rabbit ragu and rabbit stew – a recipe passed down by his dad.
Shortly after, one of his donkeys caught laminitis and had to be euthanised, before a tiny lamb was “killed by crows” – leaving fans devastated.
In February he lost another cow, though he did not confirm a cause of death.
