The Guardian on taxidermy

Check out an article by Graham Snowdon published in the Guardian online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/may/24/workandcareers  Snowdon interviews Kim McDonald - an English taxidermist - and discusses the public's perceptions of taxidermy and the ethics and laws shaping the taxidermy trade. 

Apparently, illegal imports of wildlife into Britain is second only to drug smuggling.  Who would have guess?   Besides a look at the taxidermy ethics and quick a run down of taxidemic procedure, the article offers a glimpse of taxidermists' passion for their craft in the teeth of popular slurs:

"The problem with taxidermy is that the general public look upon you as a kind of a parasite," he says, bristling with indignation. "You go out, murder animals, so you can sell them to a macabre clientele who stick 'em on their walls and, you know, adore them. And people think that's all there is to it. Well it couldn't be further from the truth."

Comments

[Kane]

Great article!

It's nice to read that he has such appropriate ethics, too.