Museum director Andreas Beitin said: 'We thought that flies didn’t come under the Animal Welfare Act.'You'd have to be insane to treat them as anything other than revolting disease-bearing pests, after all. Rather like, say, art directors.
The RSPCA slammed the 'so-called "art exhibition"' and said: 'There would be national outcry if such an exhibition involved any other animal – such as a dog.'Well, yes. But it didn't.
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Their first mistake was putting Damien Hirst and art in the same sentence.
and I thought the RSPCA were begging for money. Seems they have more than enough.
Next they will have a campaign against fly paper and fly spray. If they are protected then surely that must be cruelty.
Better get a stock in just in case.
I would suggest that 'releasing' a jar of caught flies in the foyer of the local RSPCA would alter minds somewhat. Anyway, flies aren't animals. They're insects.
Penseivat
All those food shops with UV fly-zappers had better watch out - PETA will be coming to you soon!
Is there an end-point to this? What about mosquitos (let them suck your blood)? Skin mites (don't wash them off)?
I like to tell vegetarians that tomato plants are carnivorous, as they eat insects (which they do by trapping them in stem hairs, then absorbing their nutrients through their roots after they die & fall). Come on PETA, stop this carnage!
Looking at the article though, it does seem that the 'artist' is a bit of a sick bastard. Reminds me of those kids who kill small animals, only to grow up as serial killers, only what he does is for stupid and rich people
If they are going to "humanise" insects, how ever are we going to bring ourselves to eat them?
Are we going to have "plant based" locusts next.
When the camps start appearing, I'd happily spend my retirement as a guard. I'm sure they all deserve a holiday after all
The traditional divisions into animal, vegetable or mineral suggest flies, and similar creatures, might be animals...
IIRC Hirst doesn't even do much of the work to create his... pieces. He has a workshop of underlings for that. He's an "idea" man.
Insects are animals. Millions of them have to be wiped out using chemical warfare in order to grow vegetables. It is impossible to grow plants on an industrial scale without doing so. Genuine veganism, where harming animals in order to eat, is forbidden is impossible for this reason.
"Next they will have a campaign against fly paper and fly spray."
God, don't give them ideas!
"All those food shops with UV fly-zappers had better watch out - PETA will be coming to you soon!"
I look forward to them rocking up to my local Turkish kebab shop and trying it!
"...it does seem that the 'artist' is a bit of a sick bastard. Reminds me of those kids who kill small animals, only to grow up as serial killers..."
Yes, a very unpleasant fellow. I wonder what a search of his hard drives would reveal?
"Insects are animals. Millions of them have to be wiped out using chemical warfare in order to grow vegetables."
Have you seen what's going on in Europe with the farming regulations?
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