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Fat Lady urges Brits to eat badgers
Broadcaster and food writer Clarissa Dickson Wright has sparked controversy by suggesting Brits should eat badgers.
The former star of TV's Two Fat Ladies said people should consume the bodies of animals killed as a result of culling.
Badgers have come under scrutiny amid fears they spread tuberculosis to cattle, which has led to the issue of a cull licence in Gloucestershire.
Dickson Wright said: "'It would solve the problem. There's going to be a cull, so rather than just throw them in the landfill site why not eat them?
''I would have no objection to eating badgers. I have no objection to eating anything very much, really.''
Dickson Wright said badger was widely eaten in Britain centuries ago - and was still a popular bar snack when she was young.
''When I was a teenager most of the pubs in the West Country had badger hams on the bar just like a jamon iberico. And it was delicious. It tasted like young wild boar.''
Dickson Wright said she was braced for people to be angered by her views. ''Oh yes, but I'm used to it,'' she said.
Her comments have drawn condemnation from Queen star and badger campaigner Brian May.
He said: ''I think we should seriously consider eating senseless people like this Clarissa whoever-she-is.
''She's obviously outlived her usefulness. I wonder if she would be best boiled or braised.''
what do you think?
Rob Shaw
"I have no objection to eating anything very much, really.''....looks like it
Valerie Wood
Who ate all the pies? ----------------------------------obviously Clarissa :(
andy may
the outrage should be about the cull, not whether the needless death of millions of badgers should be taken advantage of. there are alternatives to a cull but these require more effort from farmers and MAFF.
Simon .
mmm McBadger, no pickle....
michael crane
I think we should feed her to the badgers
Clayton Harris
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movvi
I think she'd be a bit gristly.
Kevin Jennings
Good to see Brian May would rather the carcasses go to waste rather than be used. Way to stick it to them nasty animal killers there, mate....
Julie Crumpton
I like her, okay, I don't agree with culling or eating badgers, I'm not struck on meat anyway, however, people eat all sorts of weird things, ......she's just an eccentric lady, nothing wrong with that, it takes all sorts!....thought brainless may was nasty, saying she had outlived her usefulness....what a cruel thing to say, although I agree with his views on badgers......he lost any respect with that one remark, in my opinion.....!
Rhys Sage
We seem to waste an awful lot of good stuff. All those cattle that had foot and mouth a few years ago. The hides could have been used for shoe leather, the bones for fertiliser and the meat could have been eaten. No - they just burned the lot.
Luke Grailey
That is probably because moving the animals off the farms is a risk of spreading the disease further. How would you even get the meat off the animals without taking them to a slaughterhouse/butchers, thus taking disease ridden animals on a ride around the countryside? Doesnt seem very sensible! When you have a disease, you quarantine it, then kill it. Not spread it around!
Phil Wookey
Firstly its British not Brits! Get it right! And secondly this stupid woman should be culled rather than the badgers! Who is she? Some z list "celebrity".
Stuart Harley
11:04am on 25/9/2012
....SHHHH !! SHE LOOKS LIKE MY LOVELY SISTER IN LAW, AHEM !!!!
Julie Crumpton
8:45am on 26/9/2012
Aww! Is she nice? :-)