Im a celebrity should be banned.

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I just don't get how anyone can watch this glorified animal abuse. If you enjoy watching celebs eating pig uterus and insects etc then i think you are tacky and judge you. Sorry.

@Thestrangestthing because they don't get harmed when crawling all over a celebrities face. Better alive than dead.
Places like longleat allow the handling of insects and reptiles. How is this any different.
The shoes bosses have also stated that eating trials will no longer allow live bugs. They all have to be dead.

Just ban everything then no one can get offended.

Do you also object to Masterchef?

I'd also love to know this. Are you vegan, OP?

It’s unfathomable to me how anyone could enjoy that lowest common denominator crap. I’ve only ever seen snippets, most recently the Jenner person and some other lady in boxes filled with rats and insects. Surely it must be horrible for the rats to have some dickhead screaming at them and many of the insects must get squashed to varying degrees. I’m with you OP, definitely judging.

Can't the celebs just eat each other?

I can't get worked up about it. Far more important things going on than a TV programme.

Being eaten alive is the standard death for most insects in the wild.
Great the people don’t want to do it gratuitously but it won’t change the inevitable outcome.

I’ve never watched it, Big Brother or Love Island because the premise seems degrading to the participants in a way other reality shows aren’t.

So are you a vegan then OP?

I enjoy the programme apart from the animal/insect side of it all. There’s enough drama without that added.

Really upset that a random person on mumsnet is judging me, gonna think about this all night now whilst I watch I'm a celebrity and think about how you will be sitting there at home judging me

I can live with your judgement to be honest.

I’ll Just add it to the list of the things I do that I could be judged for 😂 I care not a jot!

Well the British veterinary association agrees with you op
www.bva.co.uk/news-campaigns-and-policy/newsroom/news-releases/vets-heap-criticism-on-itv-for-lax-animal-welfare-standards-on--i-m-a-celeb-/
It's more the rough handling and throwing of the animals that veterinary professionals are objecting too rather than the eating challenges.

Don't be so ridiculous. I have been a vegetarian for 30 years and do not and should not take objection to other people's choices. There are no live insects eaten. All are already dead. Can you imagine taking offense to every bacon bap consumed on TV.

I’m confused. I’ve never watched it but even I know they have banned eating live insects.

What’s the problem with eating a pigs placenta? How is it any different from eating any other part of a pig?

Vegans

I think eating questionable parts of animals for entertainment is abusive yes.

Im not a vegan.

I don't watch but can't see how eating a spider is much different to some of the ways people kill them in their homes every day.

Also not convinced that grubs etc have much sentience.

I just wouldn't waggle my bacon or offal around to entertain the masses. The celebs are desperate for career revivals too.

I agree that live things should not be eaten and thought they had banned it this year. Other than that, meat is meat.

I think eating questionable parts of animals for entertainment is abusive yes.

The animal has been slaughtered for food already. Please explain how is is abusive to eat any part of that animal rather than throw it away?

I think eating questionable parts of animals for entertainment is abusive yes.

It's not like they're still alive or like they were killed specifically so someone could eat its arse hole

Yanbu.

Fishing objects out of a big pit of snakes. Just wrong.