May 30, 2007
Dog, it’s What’s for Dinner
London-based performance artist Mark McGowan ate a dog during a radio broadcast yesterday. This is just one in a string of bizarre stunts McGowan has performed to protest everything from people being rude during the holidays to student debt.
The dog, a corgi which died of natural causes at a breeding cause, was chosen specifically. The Queen’s favorite breed was dished up for McGowan’s dinner as a protest against what he considers animal cruelty doled out by the Royal Family.
McGowan is a vegetarian - but he once ate a swan as part of a performance. While eating, he told Resonance FM listeners that the dog was, “Disgusting, it’s really, really, really disgusting.”
DJ Bob Smith said he wasn’t convinced the meat was actually dog - “It’s stinky, white-looking. It’s not like any meat I’ve ever seen,” he said.
McGowan said he had the utmost faith in the women who’d prepared his corgi meal. The dog meat was minced, and mixed with apples, onions and spices - the resulting meatballs were served up with pita bread and a side salad.
After the show, McGowan seemed pleased with his ‘performance’. “To me it was, as an art piece, exhilarating,” he said.
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