Royal protester 'eats corgi'
Updated on 30 May 2007
A performance artist has eaten what he claims to be a corgi in protest at the Royal Family and its alleged treatment of animals.
Mark McGowan, who once ate a swan in a performance art show, said the cooked canine - the Queen's favourite breed of dog - tasted "really, really, really disgusting".
The corgi, which died at a breeding farm, was minced with apple, onion and seasoning for the artist's consumption on a London radio station.
He said: "I know some people will find this offensive and tasteless but I am doing this to raise awareness about the RSPCA's inability to prosecute Prince Philip and his friends shooting a fox earlier this year, letting it struggle for life for five minutes and then beating it to death with a stick.
"It's all wrong - it's really, really wrong. The protest, what Prince Philip done - it's all wrong."
The RSPCA said in a statement it had investigated the alleged incident involving Philip at the Queen's Sandringham estate in January and "found no evidence that an offence of causing unnecessary suffering had taken place".
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