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British Artist Eats Meat From Queen's Favorite Breed Of Dog

POSTED: 12:41 am EDT May 31, 2007

LONDON -- A British performance artist has eaten part of a corgi -- the breed of dog that is the favorite pet of Queen Elizabeth II - to protest the alleged mistreatment of animals by the royal family.

Mark McGowan set up a table on a London street Tuesday and dined on what he said was the meat from a corgi in hopes of drawing attention to media reports that Prince Philip, the queen's husband, had beaten a fox to death during a hunt.

McGowan's protest was broadcast on a live radio program.

"We love our animals in Britain," McGowan told AP Television News. "Why is it then that we then allow people -- especially people who are supposed to be ambassadors for this country -- to treat animals with such disrespect?"

Buckingham Palace declined to comment, and Britain's top animal-protection charity said there was no evidence to support the claim that Prince Philip abused the fox.

To make the corgi more palatable, it was mixed with apple, onion and seasoning, turned into meat balls, and served with salad.

McGowan said the corgi he consumed had died recently at a breeding farm and had not been killed for the purposes of the protest. He did not say how the dog had died.

"I ate three lumps of it. But I spat two of them out, so I really ate one and a half of them," McGowan said.

The queen has several corgis, and they have the run of Buckingham Palace -- even in the middle of formal state events.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press.

Well, that makes complete sense.

Wow.

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McGowan's protest was broadcast on a live radio program

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An people could hear in the background a voice saying......DO YOU WANT RICE WITH THAT.......

Eating dog is cruel. Cat on the other hand is tasty. Thanks for the recipe Clay.

Good thing he didn't choose Winston....would only be one bite anyway.

He's British... that's metric math.

Do you think he chewed them, or just slipped the meatballs between the gap in his teeth?

4-H queen accused of animal cruelty

Mark Hicks / The Detroit News

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IMLAY TOWNSHIP -- An Oakland County 4-H queen is facing a felony charge of animal killing and torturing on her family's farm, officials said Tuesday.

Kate Mills, 20, a preveterinary student at Michigan State University, and her family -- father Mark, 46; mother, Ellen, 44; and brother, Andrew, 18 -- have been charged with one felony count, which carries a four-year sentence.

They also face misdemeanor charges of animal abandonment and cruelty, improper animal burial and having an unlicensed dog, Lapeer County Prosecuting Attorney Byron Konschuh said Tuesday. A preliminary exam began last week and will continue June 19.

The charges stem from county animal control removing seven dead lambs, a dead horse and three malnourished dogs from the Lapeer County farm earlier this year, Konschuh said.

Ellen Mills said the charges are baseless because the dead animals all suffered from conditions documented by a veterinarian.

The seven lambs -- all newborns -- died during a late-winter cold snap, Mills said. Their corpses were stored because Mills said the U.S. Department of Agriculture advised them to keep each to test for susceptibility to scrapie.

The three dogs were underweight due to whipworm, and the horse was diagnosed with a digestive condition that caused a fatal esophageal block, Mills said.

"If we were such abusers of animals, why would they leave 30 animals here?" Mills said. "We have 30 animals in good condition."

Mills said the family's attorney, David Richardson, plans to file a motion to dismiss charges against her daughter because she did not live at home at the time.

Kate Mills was crowned Lapeer County 4-H queen in 2003 and queen at the Oakland County fair last summer, Mills said.

L.C. Scramlin, a 4-H Oakland County board member, said the board suspended Mills on May 3. Her title is on hold pending resolution of the charges.

The suspension prohibited Mills from riding on the Oakland County 4-H's float in a Memorial Day parade; she won't ride in a Fourth of July parade unless the matter is resolved in her favor before then, Scramlin said.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070530/METRO/705300375/1003

Sounds like some bogus charges.

Sounds like the family might be right in this case...

I think I'm gonna go get laid to protest wife beaters

No big deal. Dog is quite good to eat. I had it in China.
People get to hung up on stuff like this.
Bottom line: One mans pet is, is another mans dinner.

I wonder if he got the recipe from that old Chinese cook book, 101 Ways to Wok a Dog?

That's like saying suicide kills and then taking your own life... makes all the sense in the world.