I'm a Celebrity: to think we have huge double standards when it comes to animal cruelty?

[Fraochsmum]

This is something that has crossed my mind everytime this programme comes around - I don't actually watch it but it is impossible to ignore it when it is constantly on the tv and over the papers.

Last night there was an 'intro' to the night's challenge which showed 2 of the contestants having to eat live bugs. Other callenges have seen insects being dropped from a height into boxes onto contestants. Is it just me who thinks if these were little birds or kittens being eaten alive or trampled to death that there would be a national outcry? It seems because it is insects that it is alright to do in the name of entertainment.

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest!

You're right its ghastly, I hate seeing this sort of thing. Total disregard for other living things, they also use things like reptile and fish for their stunts. I sometimes wonder where it will all end - seems to be an endless stream of this kind of thing (people on pseudo-desert islands 'having' to do amateur slaughter on chickens etc.) Why do none of them ever say 'No'.

This is why I won't and don't watch it. Double standards indeed - the slaughter of live creatures for entertainment. WTF is the matter with these so called celebs.

I agree - poor squashed bugs/snakes etc. And to eat something - ALIVE - for entertainment is vile. Hate it.

Absolutely agree, it's vile and cruel. I hate all these shows where they act like less of a person just to gain extra fame. And I hate that they keep showing gross clips of the show on their adverts, I find it disgusting to watch people retching in closeup, and I don't want my toddler seeing an enormous spider going in someone's mouth, it's disturbing!

Why on earth do they think this is entertainment? I wouldn't mind watching the celebrities and how they get along together but the cruelty to the creatures and the repulsive bollock eating scenes put me right off.

I totally agree with you. My friends think I am nuts but it makes me feel sick seeing all those poor creatures squashed and eaten. Thats why I don't watch it.

I have hated this programme for years because of this. Its vile.

I don't watch it, but I agree with you

YANBU. I'm a fish geek keeper and I hate it when people think that it's OK to treat fish badly ie flush them down the loo while they're still alive or give them away as prizes to a totally unprepared person. But I guess if an animal is not cute and fluffy then it's fair game

I complained once about I'm a Celeb after one of the desperate hasbeens celebs kicked a small crocodile during a challenge but I was fobbed off with a standard 'all our challenges are supervised by animal experts' letter.

YABU
What a load of rubbish.
O.k. so the programme is rubbish. But you haven't even watched it. And you are comparing insects to birds and kittens. They don't use birds and kittens. they use insects.

If Gordon brown was a woman we would all be. But he's not. what a stupid stupid comparison.

agree, I don't watch it.

spiders in mouth, in the name of entertainment?
YEAH ?
People do all sorts of odd things. In the name of entertainment.
Parrots and birds in a show.
What about ferret racing.
People twist themselves into silly shapes, fly from canons ......
Not entertaining for me, particularly. But then have you seen entertainment recently?
Its
called the x factor, and its rubbish too.

Agree with OP. It's vile.

They are only insects. If they were left to scurry around in the world they would be eaten by possoms or rats. How many of us can honestly say that we have never squashed a wasp or stood on an ant?

I meant "wild" not "world".

I did feel sorry for the mini croc things with their jaws taped shut ...but I don't feel anything for cockroaches and crickets.
I am a callous bitch.

its not just insects though is it. its baby crocodiles lumped into tanks with their mouths taped up, its rats and snakes thrown into tanks together, its eels getting chased round tanks of water with people shouting "just stick your nails in it", those rats that are supposedly "wild"...wild my arse. no wild rat would let someone pick it up, then kill it and eat it as happened the other night.

its sick. i complained to the ITC. got a fucking standard email back about animal handlers being there blah blah blah. load of shite. they killed a rat and ate it the other night, and if those rats are wild then ill eat my own hat. they are bred for the show, they are tame. all in the name of entertainment. sick sick sick.

You are worried about crocile feet, claws etc. Loads of countries eat crocodile, don't they ? In the states and in china and in areas of africa it is a delicacy. So the croc is killed. and you are worried about the claws ?

Not keen on dog myself, but it is eatedn. not keen on all sorts of bugs and stuff that are eaten in delis, side cafes in places like beijing, china, god-knows-where-else, and places. but you must know that all sorts of things are eaten across the globe.

Oblomov, that is entirely my point. Birds and kittens are also living, breathing creatures, but because the animals used are considered pests or vermin, they are ok to be used.
thedollshouse, we aren't talking about life in the wild, we are talking about people ill-treating animals in the name of entertainment. I appreciate what happens in the natural world, but what they do is not necessary and no-one bats an eyelid because they are insects/reptiles/vermin etc.
I agree with you VicarInaTuTu, Having spent 3 months in the Amazon, I don't believe there is any danger from anything they are in contact with 'in there'.
I am not an animal activist or anything, but just get really annoyed about the double standards in this country towards what constitutes cruelty. One minute we have adverts of sad-looking dogs and cats, the next we have adverts showing a celebrity eating a living creature. Doesn't add up to me.

Crossed posts - in this country we do not regularly eat kangaroo testicles. I know exactly what passes for delicacies in other countries; fois gras in France, guinea pigs in Ecuador etc, but it does not in Britain.

I thought when you said "animal cruelty" you were talking about Jordan.

so ? we are supposed to be multi-cultural. tolerant. we KNOW what is eaten in other countries. actually you can get all sorts of such delicacies in london.
my mum likes sweet bread. i'm not keen on the idea, but thought it was very tasty.
squirrel is eaten. saw it on a gastro menu the other dsy.

dragon thtas not cruelty . thats just. no really she wants it. she loves the publicity. you know she does.
her role play of, oh poor me, i just don't know ehy i keep getting voted for .
it was laugheable.