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    In an article last year, he described an incident with Marco Pierre White in which both he and the French chef deliberated about shooting a deer, an act he described as "Ray Mears directed by Quentin Tarantino" "So I kill him and gut him, and sling the cadaver into the back of the Land Rover," Gill wrote. Full Article at The Independent
    Ray Mears directed by Quentin Tarantino
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
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Restaurant critic Gill delights in killing a baboon
  1. But because Marco's going on a bit, I forget to puncture the diaphragm and six pints of gelatinous gore empty into the back. Mr Ishi has to hose it out. He drives me back to London in silence, occasionally muttering: The blood. The blood.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  2. I don't like the English. One at a time, I don't mind them. I've loved some of them. It's their collective persona I can't warm to: the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  3. In the range of things you can be good at, being a food or TV critic is not way up there. But it's a talent and I'm quite good at it. Can anyone do it? Is everyone's opinion worth the same? No. My opinion is worth more than other people's.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  4. I know perfectly well there is absolutely no excuse for this ... Baboon isn't good to eat, unless you're a leopard. The feeble argument for cull and control is much the same as for foxes: a veil of naughty fun.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  5. So I kill him and gut him, and sling the cadaver into the back of the Land Rover
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  6. Morally reprehensible? Oh yes – but when you're out there on a chilly day with a bellyful of sloe gin and you blow a high bird clean out of the sky with a single shot, it awakens the hunter-gatherer that lurks in all men.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  7. A displacement activity for lives circling the plughole.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  8. The weather's foul, the food's medieval, it's covered in suicidal motorists and folk who believe in fairies.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  9. Somebody asked me what I was going to do in Scotland. Stalking, I said. 'Oh, how exciting. Who?' 'Who? No, I'm shooting.' 'Ooh, with a long lens? I suppose it's Balmoral. You journalists are real scum.' 'No, no, I'm stalking deer and shooting them with bullets. 'Oh God, not Bambi's mother? 'No, no, of c...
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  10. Baboons might not be in the same league as endangered elephants but that's not the point. Even if the world was overrun with such animals, it is not for a journalist to make the call of culling them. Management of animal populations should be left to people with specialist skill and knowledge, and not t...
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago

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