Vegetarian eats corgi
and was minced then cooked with apple, onion and seasoning. The diner was the performance artist who is a committed vegetarian. He ate the corgi on live radio as a protest stunt to raise awareness of animal issues and to challenge the alleged unwillingness of the RSPCA to question the Duke of Edinburgh's treatment of animals.
Some animal rights campaigners have supported the stunt, claiming that foxes and other animals are no less capable to experiencing suffering than a house pet. Some people will be repulsed (to coin a phrase) by the idea of eating dogmeat, even though they have no difficulty eating the flesh of other animals. Are meat-eaters morally inconsistent? What makes the consumption of one animal's flesh emotionally or morally less demanding than the consumption of another animal's flesh? And is this stunt likely to succeed in raising those kinds of questions, or will it merely bring ridicule to animal welfare causes?
Mark McGowan's "stunts" are really morality tales of a kind. another example of his work, and and and and .
It would interesting to see what kind of morality tale Mark McGowan would perform in Northern Ireland if he could be persuaded to stage one. We could, of course, engage in a fantasy stunt of our own.
Which issue of importance in Northern Ireland would you encourage Mark to focus on -- and what kind of stunt would you dare him to perform to raise awareness of that issue? Legal suggestions only please.
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I (genuinely) own a corgi!and am repulsed, I could not imagine eating my Harry.
There is protesting and protesting but this is too far!
PS. Re: what to do here...I would encourage mark to eat all the "doctorates" given out by ETS and anything given to Paisley.
Great challenge! Since Mark is an artist why doesn't he come to NI and help our arts community? We've half the spending per capita on the arts in NI than England and Scotland. £6.13 per person per year. Can Mark work with that number? I'd like everyone in NI to know that number and what it means, particularly since we now have an arts minister who doesnt go to galleries or theatries (or concerts, or [insert art form here]).
Why doesn't he place 613 pound coins like dominos on the one mile long road leading up to Stormont Parliament Building, then knock them all over with his nose.
The man is a buffoon.
I don't disagree with all his various causes, actually. But I don't consider this art, I believe the majority of his stunts are nonsensical faux-profundity and I think it's a bloody disgrace that taxpayers in Birmingham were forced to pay for him to lie on a city street in the name of art (). In all my conversations on the wrongness of public arts funding with DP and others in a previous thread, this is what they're arguing for? Good grief! Pay for it yourselves, you feckless, cretinous morons.
My suggestion: perhaps he could take some mannequins to the front of Stormont and dress them as police officers, one for every extra officer that could be employed by PSNI if the taxes currently used for 'arts funding' were rerouted to pay for policing.
(I hope that corgi gives him diarrhea.)
John I would modify your suggestion as follows:
dress the mannequins as police officers, one for every officer shot dead by the organisation that the Deputy First Minister was a member of.
Maybe he could dress in drag and shadow Ian Paisley Jr for a week.
But to get back to a point that Will makes - are meat eaters morally inconsistent. I am a vegetarian and have considered veganism, but i'm not the type of veggie that wants to convert everyone. But i've often wondered why would meat eaters distinguish between different types of animals?
My personal ethics would basically come down to causing the least amount of suffering to any individual - human or not.
Arguments have also been made that a predominantly meat based diet is unsustainable - in terms of the amount of land put to raising cattle rather than crops.
I would be interested to hear whether ethics are something that others consider at all when they eat.
It would have been more effective if he had first picked out a live dog in a cage for slaughter for his meal the way they do in those restaurants in Viet Nam or wherever it is in the orient they eat dogs. We could have heard the yelping of the dogs trying to get out. (Well he didn't have to do it for real, he could have pretended, for all we know he actually only ate a veggieburger.) By the way, the high pitched squeal you hear when they throw a lobster in boiling water is not the lobster screaming in pain, it's air trapped inside escaping...or so I'm told. Anyone ever walk down a street in France past a butcher shop and seen the rabbits hanging in the windows with the fur still on their paws? I guess it doesn't bring good luck after all, at least not for the rabbit.