Performance artist woofs down a corgi

Yeah…this is art…oh yeah. I thought it was Asians that et doggies?

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Canine cuisine … British performance artist Mark McGowan has eaten a corgi live on British radio to protest alleged animal cruelty by the royal family / AFP

Performance artist woofs down a corgi
By staff writers, May 30, 2007 08:37am

A BRITISH performance artist ate a corgi live on radio overnight in a protest at alleged animal cruelty by the royal family.

Mark McGowan, who once ate a swan in a performance art show, said the cooked canine - the Queen’s favourite breed of dog - tasted "really, really, really disgusting’’.

Yoko Ono, who was also a guest on the Bob and Roberta Smith radio program broadcast on London-based arts station 104.4 Resonance FM, tasted the dog but "looked a bit strange’’, McGowan said.

The corgi, which died at a breeding farm, was minced with apple, onion and seasoning, the British Press Association reported.

Before the show, the vegetarian and animal rights activist explained why he was protesting.

"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.

As McGowan, 37, ate the dog, he said: “It’s disgusting. It’s really, really really disgusting”.

"It’s all wrong - it’s really, really wrong. The protest, what Prince Philip done - it’s all wrong.’’

The show’s presenter, Bob Smith, said he was not convinced the meal was corgi, but McGowan said he trusted the the two women who cooked the dog.

"It’s stinky, it’s white-looking, it’s not like any meat I’ve ever seen.’’

The RSPCA said it had investigated the alleged incident involving Philip at the Queen’s Sandringham estate in January and "found no evidence that an offence of causing unnecessary suffering had taken place’’.

“An independent post-mortem examination was carried out and found that the fox died from gunshot wounds - and no evidence of other injury or trauma was found.”.

Poorva Joshipura, director of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ European arm, said that while "the idea of eating a corgi will make many people lose their lunch … certainly foxes who are hunted for so-called entertainment are no less capable of feeling fear and pain.

"Most of the British public will agree that it is high time the royals joined the rest of us who live in the 21st century and are opposed to cruelty to animals.’’
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Looks like crispy corgi…and can anyone decipher the gibberish from the PETA peckerhead?

The other white meat?

Nah, I think thiose Corgi rissoles are definitely a red meat. In fact although the flesh was partly obscured by the sate sauce, my recollection of sate anjing (sate dog) suggests it is a red if highly lean meat. Then again, it does look pork-like in the hot pots I’ve seen.

But the question we really need to ask is, why was this a radio event?

HG

Foxes are as capable of feeling pain as a dead dog? Now THAT’S what I call science. :laughing:
Still, he got in the papers, which is all he really wanted in the first place.

This thread is related to yesterday’s Whaling thread. . .
forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopi … ght=whales

and the good article that was linked there entitled Cruelty and the Kitchen.

Why is eating dogs and cats bad, but eating chickens that have been crammed in cages and had their beaks burned off, or pigs that were raised wallowing in their own sewage on factory farms (or the like) acceptable?

Why is eating shark fin soup bad, but fois de gras acceptable?

Why is eating whale bad, but eating dwindling populations of wild salmon acceptable?

Why is horse bad, but cow good?

Cultural conditioning…duh!

Also, I’m fully aware of the horrible conditions and suffering that accompanies most “farmed” meat, and I mean this in the politest way possible - damn, that sh*t is delicious. Not trying to be an asshole about it - I have seen the pictures, and consciously decided to continue eating meat.

I’m an utter hypocrite about the causes I support, and the ones I ignore. I shave every morning and look myself in the mirror, and still think I’m a good person.

If farming meat becomes more humane, that’s great - I’m all for it. If free-range anything is relatively cheap and widely available, I’ll happily buy it and feel even better about myself while I’m chewing it down. But I won’t lose any sleep about chewing Bossie or Mr. Cluck in the meantime.

Edit: I actually own a Pembroke, too! I wouldn’t eat her though, as she’s got a thing for munching on other dogs’ turds. Corgis don’t strike me as being terribly bright pooches.

fois de gras is not food

Um, whales are cute? :smiley:

Never tried horse, so I’m not sure it’s bad. Cow is very good.

fois de gras is not food[/quote]

Pardon moi. Foie gras. And here’s how they make it: force-feeding foul.

Um, whales are cute? :smiley: [/quote]

Wrong answer. Too big. Can you imagine trying to eat a whale?

Never tried horse, so I’m not sure it’s bad. Cow is very good.[/quote]

Again, wrong answer. Horse, smack, junk, dope, brown sugar – you don’t need to try it to know it’s bad. Just say no.

[quote=“Mother Theresa”][quote=“Dragonbones”]
Um, whales are cute? :smiley: [/quote]

Wrong answer. Too big. Can you imagine trying to eat a whale? [/quote]

That’s why you have to hack it into bite sized pieces and arrange it carefully.

But you can also get it in handy single serves:

HG

I have never tried it but it’s actually eaten in Germany. Not that common though, but when the mad cow disease was going around a few years ago lot’s of people started to put horse meat on their plates.

Did I mention I love rabbit? :lick:

You mean, you eat fwuffy widdle bunnies?

:cry:

poor widdle bunny-bunnies. I hear they go well in a red wine sauce, by the way.

The closest I’ve come to trying to eat beyond the big 5 (cows, sheep, pigs, poultry, fish) is attempting to eat frog legs. But from the moment they were brought out, the horrible stench reminiscent of 8th grade biology, turned me off.

You mean, you eat fwuffy widdle bunnies?[/quote]

No, big ones, and we strip the fluff off first. So we eat fluffless big bunnies. This is why I’ve lost my Pets and Other Animals Moderator position. :stuck_out_tongue:

You mean, you eat fwuffy widdle bunnies?[/quote]
Yep. We had lot’s of them in a barn when I was a kid, and of course I treated them as pets. Was pretty shocked when they ended up on the dinner plate. I only started eating rabbit later, long after we didn’t rear them ourselves anymore.

Frog tastes like chicken, and you eat the hole thing, not just the legs. What a waste that would be.

My dad has told me of eating horsemeat in the US as a kid. In fact, apparently many Americans have enjoyed it long past then.

[quote]March 5, 2007

RECENTLY, an official for American Horse Defense Fund, which is a fervent supporter of bills now in the United States Congress that would ban slaughtering horses for meat, declared that “the foreign-owned slaughter industry needs to understand that Americans will never view horses as dinner.”

It’s a ringing statement, but it’s not an entirely accurate one . . .

During World War II and the postwar years, when beef and pork were scarce or priced beyond most consumers’ means, horsemeat appeared in the butcher’s cold case. In 1951, Time magazine reported from Portland, Ore.: “Horsemeat, hitherto eaten as a stunt or only as a last resort, was becoming an important item on Portland tables. Now there were three times as many horse butchers, selling three times as much meat.” Noting that “people who used to pretend it was for the dog now came right out and said it was going on the table,” the article provided tips for cooking pot roast of horse and equine fillets. . .

A similar situation unfolded in 1973, when inflation sent the cost of traditional meats soaring. Time reported that “Carlson’s, a butcher shop in Westbrook, Conn., that recently converted to horsemeat exclusively, now sells about 6,000 pounds of the stuff a day.” . . .

Until the late 1970s, the Harvard Faculty Club served horse steaks as a regular menu item. . . A 1998 Harvard Crimson article on the history of the club states that “professors still recall the dish fondly.” [/quote]

Perhaps a bit off topic, but…when contestants on Fear Factor have to eat some of the awful things they make them eat on the show, off camera after the individual contests, are they all barfing them up? I don’t know that I would want my body processing pig uterus with cow brains blended up together, or big fighting cockroaches, spiders, etc. Same goes with the Corgi the dude in the original story ate.

I quite like horse. I always get some horse sausage (oo-er missus! Fnaar!) whan I’m in France. Good stuff. I wouldn’t eat this one though – he’s my friend.

Edit: Who on earth squealed MT’s post?

Last year I attended a year-end part, the main course was crocodile.

We sat nearby a crocodile pool, staring at live crocodiles, eating undescribable (edit:indescribable :slight_smile:) crocodile meet(edit:meat).

Yes I agree, most meetings with crocodiles are indescribable. :wink:

HG

[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Yes I agree, most meetings with crocodiles are indescribable. :wink:

HG[/quote]

I saw an indescribable meeting with crocodiles this morning on TV on one of the animal channels. They were showing nighttime footage of a bunch of crocodiles fighting over a hunk of dead animal on a river bank. Then a couple of lions came along and one batted at a croc a few times with her paw, to see if it might be something she could kill and eat, but the croc whipped around pretty quickly and snapped her big jaws and in the end I believe the lion decided it would be too difficult.

I dunno, I thought you described it rather well. :laughing:

HG