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Apple Scruff Apple Scruff VIC Posts: 180
1 21 Jul 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vthnSRwyaSQ

Read what this is about before you watch it. What do you think, because I'm not sure?
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ashleigh ashleigh QLD Posts: 57
2 21 Jul 2009
Hmm i dont really know, now that i have seen it i suggest that people dont watch it so the wanker doing it doesnt get attention or 'views' on youtube just in case he is doing something horrid and eating a dog. Really though, i think he is just doing it for attention and is probably eating just yor ordinary meat patty.
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Apple Scruff Apple Scruff VIC Posts: 180
3 21 Jul 2009
People are calling him an 'animal rights activist'.

I don't know what to think, the animal apparently died naturally but if the breeders got money I think that just to be as back. I wouldn't call it the most effective form of protest, like what is he really doing to make a change? But he sure did something that would get the issue a lot of attention, I'll give him that. And personally I don't think eating dogs falls under being vegetarian.  

Read this: http://www.myartspace.com/interviews/interviews/art-space-talk-mark-mcgowan-second.html
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_Matt _Matt VIC Posts: 1567
4 21 Jul 2009
How very, very strange.

What good is eating a dog that had died of natural causes going to do? I really can't figure out. I'm not convinced it was really a dog he was eating anyway. I suppoe all he was hoping for is if people go and research the issue he ate the "dog" for.

But yeh, I think this, whatever this was, was poorly executed - I mean, we don't even know what he was trying to achieve through eating the dog. It said on youtube he was protesting fox hunting? I suppose then he was eating the Corgi because they go on the fox hunt too?  But it's not like they eat the fox anyway..

again, how very, very strange..
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_Matt _Matt VIC Posts: 1567
5 21 Jul 2009
uh okay, I think I get what he was doing. He wanted to link the royal family's ill-treatment of foxes with the pampering treatment of their Corgis? Maybe trying to show that if you can eat a Corgi... there isn't really a difference between it and a fox...  and so the royal family should change its ways?

or maybe i don't know lol
i don't think i am the first anyway lol
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Apple Scruff Apple Scruff VIC Posts: 180
6 21 Jul 2009
Matt.Y said:
uh okay, I think I get what he was doing. He wanted to link the royal family's ill-treatment of foxes with the pampering treatment of their Corgis? Maybe trying to show that if you can eat a Corgi... there isn't really a difference between it and a fox...  and so the royal family should change its ways?

or maybe i don't know lol
i don't think i am the first anyway lol
yeah he did it after prince charles (i think) shot a fox and after five minutes of it dying they beat it to deaf. and corgis and the royal families "token" dog, so he would have done it to disgust them. interesting...
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Francis Francis VIC Posts: 286
7 21 Jul 2009
It was to make a point that indeed all animals feel and suffer and don't deserve to be slaughtered or tortured be it for food or hunting or any other 'pleasure'.

He is trying to elicit a response from the royal family(or those that act similarly) by eating their favourite breed of dog similar to the reposnse he felt himself to hearing about the family's hunting habits.

IF the dog died naturally I don't see that there is a problem.

Unfortunately the intent of the artist(?) will probably be lost on most people.

What he's done is just a more radical version of the old 'who do you pet who do you eat' thing..

I've seen a fantastic (but disgusting) image of a cat in a manual mincer - head on top still alive as out of the mincer/grinder comes minced flesh.

I think the intent is the same.
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- Kitty Freak - - Kitty Freak - SA Posts: 1071
8 21 Jul 2009
yeah i can understand what hes doing.
Makes perfect sense..i like the idea of it alot, i dont like the fact that hes probably eating an animal but its a great shock to meat eaters.. "omg! hes eating a dog hes so horrible!" so its like hes horrible for eating a dog but its ok to eat any other meat?

its a..kind of good message put on in a very interesting way. maybe its just vegie patty ahah! that would be cool happy
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