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 From our Chicago bureau  -

Performance artist Mike 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.

Unca Lonald reporting