A Welsh farmer has accused Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of "losing the plot" after the racing driver told his 21 million followers to go vegan.
Hill farmer Gareth Wyn Jones said he respected the world champion as a driver, but posted a video on Twitter taking him to task over the issue of veganism.
Hamilton went vegan in 2017 and has since used his platform on social media to promote a variety of issues that involve the environment and animal welfare, including relentlessly urging his millions of followers to go vegan and ditch leather.
He has even changed his pet bulldog Roscoe's diet to a vegan one.
But Gareth, from Llanfairfechan, has told him to stop telling other people how to live and what to eat.
Taking to Twitter, the farmer said: "I have just read the beginning of an article of Lewis Hamilton telling his 21 million followers all to go vegan.
"I really respect the guy as a racing driver, I think he is brilliant, but I think he has got this one wrong, and I tell you why. At four o'clock this morning I was up, out, checking on my cows and a newborn calf. All day we have been checking on our sheep.
"My family have been on this farm for 370 years, producing sustainable food. Not only do we produce meat, we produce wool and we grow our own vegetables and we try to grow as much of our own fruit as we can.
"I just think these people are losing reality. They are losing the plot about what we should be talking about.
"I have killed animals and eaten them. I have shot rabbits, I have shot pheasants, I have caught fish and I am proud of it because I am feeding my family. I don't live in Monaco. I don't live a life that I pretend. I live a life that is true, honest and part of the ground, the soil that we grow and produce things to feed other people.
"That is what a farmer does. So, I am sorry Lewis, keeping going at 160mph round and round that racetrack, but don't tell other people how to live or what to eat."
Welsh retired referee Nigel Owens, who has his own farm breeding Hereford cattle, was one of the first to comment on the video saying: "Da iawn. Well said Gar."
