Well, I almost chocked on my coffee when I heard that Chef Gino D’Acampo and ex-Hollyoaker Stuart Manning had gotten into trouble for killing and cooking a rat on I’m A Celebrity – I mean let’s be honest, they were starving!
First of all, shouldn’t ITV be to blame, considering they let a tame rat just wander into the camp, knowing full-well that the hungry campers would probably see it as a the closest thing to a nice slab of meat they were going to be getting any time soon?
And secondly, why are they Aussies making such a big fuss about them killing and cooking a rat when they allow people to eat live bugs, fried flies and kangaroo testicles on TV? I mean surely that’s little bit hypocritical if they’re banging on about animal rights and whatnot – does that have more right to live that all those flies and bugs or something? I think not.
Let’s face it, Gino killed a rat because the camp were hungry, he didn’t do it for show, as a chef he see’s meat and meat, plain and simple, and to say they were flouting Aussie RSPCA rules by eating the rodent is a bit rich, considering the RSPCA doesn’t seem to have made a fuss about breeding bugs en masse for the Bushtucker Trials.
Is anyone else as furious over all this as me?
Ruth. xx
