Wednesday December 1, 11:07 AM

Artist eats fox in protest
LONDON (Reuters) - Forget the soiled bedsheets and pickled animals, art has taken another outrageous turn in an example of the unspeakable swallowing the uneatable.

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 December 15.

he must be a crack-heads himself then or a crack pot

I can kinda see his point but just recon it's a completely obvious publicity stunt.

Kinda along the lines as Damien Hirst <sp?> cutting cow in half but less of a statement and less clever

Classic!

something so simple and really quite pathetic gettin gpeople worked up

Sounds fun..Ive always wondered what fox tastes like!!

Why would people want to go and watch him eat a plate of meat, it doesn't make any difference what animal it's from. Eating fox is no different to eating cow, pig, dog, cat, chicken, rabbit, horse, budgie, etc. it's just another meat.

"Art" my arse, it's just a load of pretentious b***ocks. Same goes for that t**t who pickled a cow and the daft bint who made £££s**tloads out of an unmade bed.

Mind you, fair point about the crack-heads, how about a million people going on a junkie cull?

I missed this. Unfortunately I've just found it. Madness...