A group of Danish students have been kicked off Facebook for cooking and eating a cat.
The students, from the Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus, posted 30 pictures of themselves cooking and eating the animal.
But their protest, aimed at drawing attention to the way pigs and cattle are raised for meat, was slammed by the animal rights lobby.
The students say the cat was feral and had been shot by a farmer trying to control the number of cats on his land. They say it was killed humanely and prepared by a professional chef.
They said they were surprised by people's reactions and were 'disappointed' their Facebook profile was no longer accessible.
"We wanted people to think about what it was they were putting in their mouths," said Laura Bøge Mortensen, group member and the editor of a student magazine that carried an article about the meal.
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