Posted on 06/09/2005 9:54:41 AM PDT by andyk
A restaurant selling squirrel terrine has been forced to withdraw it after death threats from animal rights activists.
Protesters threatened to firebomb the Hadley Bowling Green Inn in Droitwich, Worcs, and to smash up the staff's cars over the £7.95 paté starter.
A female housekeeper was told: "I'm glad I don't work here because I wouldn't want to die in the fire."
After the dish was featured on local television the restaurant received about 25 threatening telephone calls and a string of malicious e-mails.
Its spokesman, Barney Reynolds, said: "The last thing we would want to do is to pander to this sort of intimidation.
"But the fact is that some of the staff were coming into work fearing for their lives."
He added: "We've never had to take something off the menu before because of threats from protesters. I don't know why squirrel meat is so controversial.
"In the past we've sold meat from fluffy little lambs and it's not been a problem."
Ring it around the chest area and pull from both directions(opposite) until the skin is just around the feet and neck at one end, and the feet and tail at the other. I then use diagonal pliers to snip the feet and tail and head. All this should be done without touching the meat with hairy fingers. Then gut it, and put in pan of water. Any hair can be removed later in the sink. Manhandling the carcass is usually what causes excess hair on the meat.
Understood!
I think it might be the Tony Martin case that you're talking about. His shotgun was legal. Contrary to popular belief lots of people own shotguns legally in the UK.
Much more to the story, yes, but it's worth bearing in mind that it received so much publicity because it was an unusual case. Self-defence is legal in the UK.
(Not that I'm claiming the UK situation is perfect: it isn't, and I'm not trying to defend it. Just defending the truth.)
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If self-defence is legal in the UK, then why would a homeowner defending his home & hearth from an intruder, and with a legal shotgun, be prosecuted?
Even in this country there are different standards: in the west a man may stand his ground on the street while back east he may be obligated to retreat.
Mr. Martin's prosecution pretty much cuts the legs out from under any 'self-defence is legal in the UK' position, wouldn't you say, if a man can't defend himself in his own home?
(In Texas they would have given the man a medal.)
LOL!
There was a post not long ago about this. I'm not savvy enough to retrieve it. It was about how stringent arms control is in the UK. I didn't say gun control because it actually enimerates swords and knives. The kicker was an anecdote about a woman who was prosecuted for beaning a burgler on her rooftop with a ceramic garden troll.
I remember the story but I really don't think she was prosecuted. Lauded yes.
I think it's a "birds of a feather" thing.
A bunch of squirrels protesting the eating of squirrels!
Animal rights activists in Great Britain (where the ALF began) are an order of magnitude more violent than in the United States. Not sure just why, but some in the States are "hopeful" that that level of nastiness is exportable. Nice people. Personally I think of human beings as animals that can shoot back.
In this country we have the right to arm bears. That may not make much sense to Europeans, but that's the way it is.
You have very dangerous bears in your country!
In the UK we can also own arms, but to a much more limited degree. Other European countries are even less stringent. I beleive every man of fighting age in Switzerland owns a rifle.
I grew up in a rural area where hunting squirrel was a common practice and still is.
Chacun a son gout.
Oops! That was french wasn't it. Sorry.
Sorry, the SCOTUS says you have to leave the pot out of it.
Found a home for your squirrels...
My grandfather used to tell us kids that he was "taking the squirrel's sweater off".
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