Today I heard a story, it depressed me greatly.
It made me question what the hell is going on in peoples minds these days..
We have a show here in England called 'I'm a celebrity, Get me out of here!' Which apparently films people I've never heard of sit in an Australian rainforest for a few weeks competing to see who can eat the most eyeballs, insects and penises.
This year there was some no-name Italian chef going for it and at some point, tiring of the beans and rice, he decided that some meat would go down quite well for everyone.
So in the well known tradition of catching a mammal, killing and cooking it he provided himself with some tasty Rat-meat.
This didn't go down to well apparently, some animal lovers (Not in that way) namely the RSPCA, An animal welfare organization sort of Like PETA but FAR less batshit insane and generally well adjusted, very nice people, claimed that the killing of an Animal for meat! was "not acceptable."
The Chef now faces charges and is due to appear in Court on the third of February 2010.
As the observant among you may be able to figure out due to some slightly biased emphasis on my part, That I think this whole thing is foolish and a waste of the time everyone involved, including the digesting Rodent.
We are animals, predators to be precise, we are meant to hunt, kill and eat animals. We didn't come to rule the world by going hungry while a meal runs right past.
Yes, I understand that some people are saying it was done for entertainment and not for food, bullshit, it got ate didn't it? It doesn't matter if it was done to impress someone, most things humans and other animals do are to be impressive to someone (usually a member of the opposite sex). Somebody got a meal out of some meat. No-one made Rat skin socks or anything like that, the animal wasn't tortured, it was just turned into food and eaten.
I can't believe the fact that ITV apologised for showing mammals feeding on other mammals when the BBC has been using David Atenbrough to show everyone the same thing since the '60's.
Anyway, this rant had some points somewhere but the ranting kinda got in the way, please what do you all think of this? I'm interested in finding out if I'm the last sane person alive.
TL;DR? Try again, I'm sure you can manage it!
<url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8398734.stm>Link to BBC news story
It made me question what the hell is going on in peoples minds these days..
We have a show here in England called 'I'm a celebrity, Get me out of here!' Which apparently films people I've never heard of sit in an Australian rainforest for a few weeks competing to see who can eat the most eyeballs, insects and penises.
This year there was some no-name Italian chef going for it and at some point, tiring of the beans and rice, he decided that some meat would go down quite well for everyone.
So in the well known tradition of catching a mammal, killing and cooking it he provided himself with some tasty Rat-meat.
This didn't go down to well apparently, some animal lovers (Not in that way) namely the RSPCA, An animal welfare organization sort of Like PETA but FAR less batshit insane and generally well adjusted, very nice people, claimed that the killing of an Animal for meat! was "not acceptable."
The Chef now faces charges and is due to appear in Court on the third of February 2010.
As the observant among you may be able to figure out due to some slightly biased emphasis on my part, That I think this whole thing is foolish and a waste of the time everyone involved, including the digesting Rodent.
We are animals, predators to be precise, we are meant to hunt, kill and eat animals. We didn't come to rule the world by going hungry while a meal runs right past.
Yes, I understand that some people are saying it was done for entertainment and not for food, bullshit, it got ate didn't it? It doesn't matter if it was done to impress someone, most things humans and other animals do are to be impressive to someone (usually a member of the opposite sex). Somebody got a meal out of some meat. No-one made Rat skin socks or anything like that, the animal wasn't tortured, it was just turned into food and eaten.
I can't believe the fact that ITV apologised for showing mammals feeding on other mammals when the BBC has been using David Atenbrough to show everyone the same thing since the '60's.
Anyway, this rant had some points somewhere but the ranting kinda got in the way, please what do you all think of this? I'm interested in finding out if I'm the last sane person alive.
TL;DR? Try again, I'm sure you can manage it!
<url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8398734.stm>Link to BBC news story
