Performance artist eats fox in hunting protest
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-12-03 14:15

Forget the soiled bedsheets and pickled animals, British art has taken another outrageous turn in an example of the unspeakable swallowing the uneatable.

Mark McGowan pushes a peanut along the road to Tony Blair's Downing street home with his nose in a political protest. [yahoo]

Performance artist Mark McGowan, who counts among his feats pushing a peanut along the road to Tony Blair's Downing street home with his nose, has eaten a fox, in protest at the public fixation with a government ban on fox hunting.

He described the roast fox, which he ate in public, as quite tasty, although he admitted to nearly vomiting at times.

"It was a bit like rack of lamb," he told Reuters on Wednesday. "The trouble was the retching noises from the other people in the room."

Too much attention is paid to fox hunting, he believes. "One million people marched against fox hunting and another million marched for it. The housing estate where I live is full of crack-heads but no one marches to help them," he said.

"Everyone gets really worked up about a furry animal, but no one cares about each other."

McGowan plans to repeat the performance at an exhibition in London's Docklands on Dec.15.

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