“There are very silly arguements and unecessary bashings posted about this artist, her work and the meat company she is working with to complete the piece, "We Are Shadows," potentially provocative and powerful. There is nothing shocking about using skin to make art, even that of a chicken. Throughout the ages, humans have used animal skin for a great number of purposes, including as substrate for art. It is true that Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva is not painting "pictures" on the surface of the skins but the massive monochromatic wall hanging she is producing with them has the potential to stand alone as an image in-and-of-itself, i imagine, lovely and overwhelming. If I lived in the UK, I would want to see this piece when completed. No art or approach to making art can be judged site unseen and definitely not before it is even done! On another note, the paranoia for the spread of disease is ridiculous. What part of, "cleaned, dried & chemical-treated," do you not understand?”

“Stupid, stupid, stupid. Shame on the artist for not understanding art. Shame on Malik, for promoting his butcher shop like this. Shame on the BEP for printing this drivel and giving Malik, Pak Butchers, and the artist space for this stupid publicity stunt. Anybody want to do what I do with the contents of my brown bin? I didn't think so - so I paint nice pictures instead. If you don't like this rubbish, please look into the group known as The Pre-Warholite Alliance.”

“Supplying meat to the bristol city council whilst being a councillor, Is there a conflict of interest?”

“Can any free advertising in any case generally , be in breach of the COUNCILORS¿ CODE OF CONDUCT ??”

“Less squeamish readers might like to ponder just how Halal meat is slaughtered. Also, why, when only 3% of the UK's population is Muslim, 25% of its meat is Halal. High time, surely, that Halal meat is clearly labelled so that carnivores can make a considered choice when buying meat.”

“What is the difference, the Chinese are making shoes out of fish skins and I am sure that you enjoy wearing "leather" shoes. So pray tell me, what is the difference?”

“I think the idea is fowl”

“Come on guys lets try n be a bit more polite and calm down with the mean comments that are completely uncalled...Abdul does some really great and different work within the community, and supplying free meat skins to encourage an artist seems like really positive stuff to me!
Atleast he is helping someone make use of her talent rather than just sitting back n doing nothing!”

“Yes I agree with you Lorna. These people are sick and will probably end up infecting the public. Who will pay the cost then. Thats right us. When i think of all he poor children and sick people dying, it beggars belief that we allow these so called 'artists' to live in our cities.”

“Oh and prehaps with the proceeds from the free advertising Pak Butchers could build themselves are car park so they dont keep blocking the publics right of way.”