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Has gone too far this time. Firstly we had lady C burn a poor beetle alive by throwing it on the camp fire. And tonight a spider has been eaten alive during an eating trial. This to me is animal cruelty.

Can't bear watching, regardless of the hapless creatures (the insects i mean).

Watching the mating rituals of Homo stupidensis really isn't interesting.

cakedup but cake that's exactly what i mean you had to use powder,u didnt want to but that was the solution as obviously it's not good to have an infestation

but some especially op is being very superior in that she is saying she has never killed an insect,i just dont believe it to me thats being a hypocrite

if op said "i hate killing of insects and it's cruel but i admit i had no option when i had an infestation and i hated using chemicals" i could totally see their point and would understand

but to say they have never killed an insect i dont believe it

Believe what you like Sally.

I've been reading similar comments about the cruelty of eating a live spider on the Digital Spy Forum. What I don't understand is why no one who thought it was wrong to eat a live spider, mentioned thinking it wrong to eat a live witchity grub. Why the distinction?

I suppose, Gruntfuttock, because works of fiction have been written about spiders (Charlotte's Web, James and the Giant Peach, etc), nothing has every been written about a witchity grub. As far as I know.

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I didn't know the witchity grub was alive, Grunt, but yes, that too is disgusting .

I thought the same about any live creature, not just the spider.

I also hated the fact the rats were picked up by their tails. I have pet rats and you are absolutely not allowed to pick them up by their tails.

Whether we have ever killed so much as an ant is irrelevant. Eating a live creature for some trial/entertainment is unecessary. You don't have to be vegan to think this is cruel.

I was a vegan for 24 years.

I don't agree with eating the spider and I couldn't watch that trial. I felt really sorry for all the animals during the trials. But I do think if you eat meat and live in a society like ours where animals are regularly used for our own benefit and enjoyment in some pretty horrific ways then I don't think anyone has a right to make a distinction between the spider trial and the way cows are treated for dairy or the way pigs are slaughtered for example. It's all the same. All for our own enjoyment.

Good logic there VeganCow:

"I am disgusted and shall be complaining" and "thank god I don't watch the shite show" in the same post.

Complaining about something you haven't seen is hilarious. Like those idiots in the states complaining about the Satanic content of Harry Potter, without having read it.

By all means, watch and complain. But I really do not understand second hand outrage!

Insects and animals are eaten alive all the time in the wild. I don't get why it's OK for a bird to eat a live spider but not a human to eat one.
Lions certainly don't make sure the antelopes are humanely slaughtered in an abbatoir before noshing down.

Yes I've killed insects/arachnids in the home but I do my best to do so as quickly and cleanly as possible.

Eating them alive or throwing them on a fire is not the same thing IMO.

As much as I love the show, I hate the way the critters/insects are treated. I often wonder if some of the animals get scared when they celebrity has to unscrew the stars etc.

But OP, I'm amazed that you have never killed an insect?!?

You're very lucky that you've never had an ant/fly/cockroach/mouse infestation in your home.

Most people in the uk are total hypocriticts when it comes to animal cruelty.

I couldn't agree more.

Do people really not realise that animals do actually suffer when they killed?

The cow/pig/chicken you ate today didn't just die of natural causes.

Just because you buy it nicely package it means you can stay ignorant to the fact that you contribute to an animals suffering almost daily.

You are no better than the people you are complaining about OP.

Where did I say I eat meat. Don't just make assumptions. Plus you can't compare eating for survival to down right animal cruelty.

I stopped watching the show years ago.
I can't watch insects and animals being abused for entertainment. Torturing insects then tiny animals then bigger animals then people is what psychopathic murderers do. Desensitising the general population to this sort of cruelty does not hold any positives in my opinion.
And this show has surely come to the end of it's shelf life by now? Every year it's girl in bikini/unlikely friendship/hissy fit and tears yawn...

People cook lobsters alive too.

PP's have it right that animals in factories die far worse deaths, as the machines don't always do their jobs correctly. Yet, people in this thread still eat meat.

Flicking a bug in the fire to wind someone up was mean. But I can't bring myself to care about the bug itself.

I didn't really feel comfortable with this- I don't see any hypocrisy with eating meat- she clearly had to torture the spider first until it was desperate enough to curl up and that was provided as entertainment by ITV. That's my issue.

Plus you can't compare eating for survival to down right animal cruelty.

Survival?

Thanks for the support, on iabu I hardly ever get anyone backing me up about the weird animal cruelly relationship uk people have.

See, i have killed thousands upon thousands of fruit flies, and done some pretty shitty things to them too. But there was a justifiable reason imo.

However, to cause unecessary distress to any animal or even insect is just, well, its being a cunt really isn't it.