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NEWSNIGHT IS ONE of the BBC’s many staples – a current affairs programme par excellence and home for many years to the incomparable Jeremy Paxman.
Why then did it decide to show people cooking and eating a squirrel last night?
It was all to prove a point about man’s odd culinary relationship with certain animals it seems.
Writer and environmentalist George Monbiot, who provoked outrage earlier this week when he revealed he cooked a squirrel he found dead on a road, repeated the feat on Newsnight together with nonplussed presenter James O’Brien.
And this is the result:
Why an axe was a necessary implement we cannot say. Apparently however, according to a queasy looking O’Brien at any rate, the rodent tastes something like rabbit.
Monbiot believes that all farmed meat is basically unethical hence the diversion into roadkill.
And as you might expect the macabre spectacle has provoked a deal of reaction on Twitter, from the:
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Dull television it ain’t.
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