How FAR will people go? What’s next? 
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20030929/D7TS63400.html?PG=home&SEC=news
Well, it is now illegal to kill yourself on stage in Ft. Lauderdale. There goes my spring break plans. I’ll have to return the heard of Rhinos that would have trampled me…
An excerpt from the CNN article.
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Last time I checked, blending up fresh rat Margaritas constituted animal cruelty. How is it that these headlines aren’t about the conviction of these slimeballs on such charges?
Increasing public awareness about the right-to-die is all well and fine. Setting the entire movement back by “glamorizing” it is more than a little fucking stupid. Blenderizing live rats goes beyond fucking stupid and into the realm of tort offense and just plain evil.
[Mrs. Lovejoy]
Won’t someone please think of the rodents!
[/Mrs. Lovejoy]
Old hat. G.G. Allin promised to commit suicide on stage on Halloween for years before he ODed in 1993. From the All Music Guide entry on him:
Last time I checked, blending up fresh rat Margaritas constituted animal cruelty. How is it that these headlines aren’t about the conviction of these slimeballs on such charges?
Not that I disagree with you on this **Zenster{/B] But I’d need to see a cite on where the killing of rats constitutes animal cruelty. Or are there accepted methods of killing them and illegal methods?
Suuuuure it is!
Some folks need to get over themselves and stop believing their own bullshit. This is a crass publicity stunt, nothing more. And will do nothing but hurt the fight to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
Dweeb.
What do they do the the suicide? Put his family in jail? Blenderize his pet rat?? 
You have got to be kidding? Legality or no, what message is being sent (free speech)?
What animal (as in decapitated bats) should next be infused upon the stage? … Even in the name of (supposed) art?
You can kill rats to be vermin-free, but you really can’t grind 'em up for fun or entertainment.
I know, it really doesn’t make much difference to the rat, but we have to some standards
Yes, but is there a law that says I can’t grind up rats? What if I was starving and had no other food, and I made sure the meat was relatively disease free?
Well, if the rats are dead to start out with, THEN you can use the grinder…
Ah, but they have to die somehow. What if I had shot them with a BB gun?
I need to find a copy of the Rules for Killing Critters…
They were just doing a test to see if their makeup was safe for humans.
The results were… inconclusive.
Oh hell, my mom must be a hardened felon. She used to grind up mice in a blender to make “mouse medium” for her lab.
Ahh, dear old mum, she made the best pate.
I don’t know if this really pertains to the discussion, but this article is about a Danish artist whose “art” involved a bunch of blenders with goldfish in them. Viewers were at liberty to turn them on if they wished. Everybody complained that it was animal cruelty, but the judge thought differently; the fish were killed “instantly,” and therefore it wasn’t cruel. I suppose the same thing could be said about a rat.
Setting aside for a minute what Qazzz just said: What is so difficult to understand about the difference of grinding up a live animal vs grinding up a dead animal?
Which would you prefer? To die, and /then/ be chopped into little bits, or to still be alive while you’re chopped into little bits? Please tell me you can see the difference? (NotMr, I’m assuming that yer mother’s mice were pre-dead before they were puree’ed, no?)
And Qazzz There’s a bit of a difference between a fish and a rat - one is a small object suspended in a liquid - the other is not. Have you ever tried to grind up a large solid obect (say, a carrot) in a blender? It doesn’t work very quickly.
Can’t anyone view this stunt as the pure marketing schtick that it is?
Nice publicity stunt by Hell on Earth. I bet their web traffic has jumped 1000%
Yeah… A food processor would be much more suitable for the larger animals. Good point.
What about the Bass-O-Matic?