A British artist ate a corgi dog, famous for being Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite breed, in protest Tuesday after a group including her husband Prince Philip allegedly killed a fox earlier this year.
Mark McGowan, who has previously eaten a swan as part of a performance art show, tucked into the dog alongside Yoko Ono, the widow of ex-Beatle John Lennon, live on a London radio station.
“I know some people will find this offensive and tasteless but I am doing this to raise awareness about the RSPCA’s inability to prosecute Prince Philip and his friends shooting a fox earlier this year, letting it struggle for life for five minutes and then beating it to death with a stick,” he said.
McGowan said the dog, which died at a breeding farm, tasted “really, really disgusting,” and added that Ono “looked a bit strange” as she also tasted the dog.
That’s nauseating. I wonder if anybody is protesting the protester.
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Yeah, like the RSPCA is going to prosecute the pompous Prince Phillip. Somebody should prosecute Ono for that screeching she calls art.
I don’t think I could have done that,but I admire the man’s courage for doing what he thought was enough to get attention so that his view would be heard. I find nothing offensive about feeling that killing foxes for sport is anything but cruel. Foxes are beautiful animals and as far as I know do not pose a threat to humans, so why is it sporting to hunt and kill them when they are not a part of the human diet! That sport should be against the law! Period! I agree with his attitude about it. -JL
Foxes are beautiful animals and you are right, they pose little or no threat to humans. Unfortunately, they do pose a serious threat to my chickens and geese, and not wanting to eat animals that have been raised in little cages, I reckon its good to shoot foxes that get to close to my house. In wilderness areas, I don’t see why they should hunt them, and if people want them in cities, fair enough, but in the countryside the population has to be controlled.
I wonder if I could raise attention for the plight of my poor chickens by eating an artist everytime the fox get one of my birds.
I really don’t see what makes people get so disgusted about the prospect of eating dog, as opposed to cow, pig, chicken, sheep or for that matter oysters. Flesh is flesh as far as it goes.
Actually, the idea of eating some dog meat, stir fried with some garlic, onions, some bean sprouts, a little soy sauce, etc. is far, far, far more appealing to me than an oyster. Sea boogers –yuck!
Oysters may not look very appetizing but they taste great.
#5
And because they don’t have beady eyes ppl don’t mind pouring lemon juice & tabasco sauce on their raw living flesh.
and not wanting to eat animals that have been raised in little cages, I reckon its good to shoot foxes that get to close to my house
maybe you should show them the deed to your house. They probably think that they have the right to be there, just because they’ve always been there.
Many cultures around the world eat dog. I’ll admit that I’d try it, were I in the proper setting. And I’m a dog lover. Meat is meat once it’s been skinned and cooked.
#3, Ben,
I think you’ll find that fox prefer mice and other small rodents and will only attack hens if left to roam.
#8, Dr.
Even that raccoon laying on the road 100 yards down from my house?
I see.
It is a terrible wrong to kill an intelligent and innocent mammal for a trivial reason.
To demonstrate just how wrong, this mongoloid proceeds to kill an intelligent and innocent mammal for a trivial reason.
Now I just went to the
toolshedData Center and fired up the trustyCommodore PETCray-3 and ran this through. And guess what?1 wrong
+ 1 wrong
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≠ 1 right
Of course, moral and intellectual giants Mr. McGowan and Ms. Oh-No were not able to reach this previously unconsidered, utterly counterintuitive conclusion, having only their alleged brains with which to analyze the problem.
What a couple of 24 karat, bona fide Grade A fuckwits. They should both be shoved into barrels full of broken glass and rubbing alcohol and rolled down Lombard Street. Daily.
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Also goes to prove, sad to say, that, even considering that Heather Mills thing he married, Paul really was always the smarter one.
The dog was not killed. It died on it’s own.
Ugh! This ‘protester’ makes our Pacific Northwest ecoterrorists look smart.
OK, they’re innocent of canicide. It’s still an idiotic thing to do, as is often the case with political points made by pretentious psuedo-artists.
And they still merit the barrel ride, just on GPs.
#13, Lauren, dang, that’s one mean barrel ride. Perhaps they should just eat the dog and go flying with me for a 15 minute aerobatics routine. I guarantee the hurls and subsequent lifelong lament and nightmares
A scenario ripe with the potential for tragedy; if steps are not taken to ensure her silence, Ms. Oh-No might “sing”, precipitating your immediate involuntary autodefenestration… No, your courage is to be admired, but we couldn’t permit this self-sacrificial act. 🙂
#16, Lauren,
Well, looks like pulling 6 G’s while typing leads to involuntary depression of the “Say It!” button. Trying again,
I guarantee silence for the participants, except for the involuntary gasps of pain at 6Gs, but all passengers are invited to “pull the emergency pin” on the door to freedom, thus escaping the most mind numbing torture of inverted, vertiginous excruciating torment they have ever experienced.
Lauren – canicide? Is that a real word? Or is that from the Ghoti International Dictionary of Handy Words?
And autodefenestration? I’m not touching that one with a 10 foot pole.
15, On the radio this morning, they played a live version of Ono “singing” with the Rolling Stones on their recent tour. I almost wrecked my motorcylce trying to get the earphones of my head during what sounded to me like alleycats fucking.
#17, Hop, autodefenestration = jump out the nearest window. I liked my solution better, let ’em pull the pin on the emergency door to freedom at 3,000 AGL with no parachute. And thanks for editing my bogus post.
#3 – Ben Waymark – I’d pay to see that. And if the artist is Yoko Ono, I bet a lot of people would stand in line.
#17 – hhopper
“I’m not touching that one with a 10 foot pole.”
How Century 20. We have since gone to 3-meter poles. Do pay attention, 007.