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!

I could eat anything dead - fish eyes, kangaroo testicles (obviously for money not just for fun LOL) but I just couldn't eat a live ant/witchity grub etc - I just hate them eating live things - double standards I know!

I can't feel sorry for cockroaches

or Jordan

oh QOD, you do fish eyes ????

mind you, tripe turns my stomach.

oh guess what. guess what. I am being taken to Hisbiscus next week, by my mum. a treat. 2 michelin stars. my birthday was in jan. but hey ? they have wierd things there, i think. looked at the menu. eel and ostrich are not particularly wierd, but
I shall report back to you, on what odd and sods and grubs and bugs, I have consumed.

Oh oblomov - for many I could eat anything apart from poop LOL

Just because insects and things are eaten in the wild does not justify them being killed in horrible ways for our entertainment.

I don't think there are any animal or insects who deliberately kill for fun or entertainment, and don't eat the creature they've killed, or do it for some other valid reason like protecting their babies/self defence/asserting their right to breed/fighting for a higher place in the pack etc

So in this sense to derive entertainment from the pointless ill treatment of creatures is actually much more barbaric than what happens amongst animals and insects in the wild.

And you can't group killing and eating a tame rat in with bloody x-factor which is a singing contest with no contact with animals. It's not even similar other than they're both on TV.

Yes, the point is that if something is eaten for FOOD, it is natural - needed. It is not neccessary to kill/torture animals for fun.