Just got to laugh...

Gaygle · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:46

Also, i was wondering, would people still have the same opinion if it was a dog or cat?

Amnesia · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:47

Gaygle said:
Also, i was wondering, would people still have the same opinion if it was a dog or cat?

what about a cow

Gaygle · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:48

Amnesia said:
what about a cow

I suspect people wouldn't care one bit if it was a cow, but if it was a dog that was killed and eaten, i suspect there would be riots outside ITV HQ.

kylew · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:49

Strife212 said:
Jobsworth scum at the RSPCA in this case tbh, hopefully it will get thrown out at court.

"Scum" OcUK's most overused and abused word.

antijoke · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:49

How come no-one from the RSPCA ever complains about Bear Grylls killing Deer/other animals?

Amnesia · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:50

Gaygle said:
I suspect people wouldn't care one bit if it was a cow, but if it was a dog that was killed and eaten, i suspect there would be riots outside ITV HQ.

i think more people would care for a cow than a rat.

Vixen · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:51

I can't help but feel the wrong people are getting in trouble for this. The people running the show should have known all about animal rights where they were filming and it's up to them to educate their cast and crew.

Tefal · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:53

Vixen said:
I can't help but feel the wrong people are getting in trouble for this. The people running the show should have known all about animal rights where they were filming and it's up to them to educate their cast and crew.

iirc no one cares about the animals rights in so much as it being killed.

Simply that it was killed on a tv program.

jakeke · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:00

Sounds stupid, they eat cockroaches so how do they place more importance on a rat than other living creatures

jakeke · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:01

anticonscience said:
How come no-one from the RSPCA ever complains about Bear Grylls killing Deer/other animals?

He goes to countries where the laws aren't so strict and they're usually already dead. He doesn't kill them

Vixen · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:45

Tefal said:
iirc no one cares about the animals rights in so much as it being killed.

Simply that it was killed on a tv program.

Yes, but my point was that the producers should have known that killing animals would have been a problem and if they didn't they should have asked the RSPCA officer who had been overseeing the whole thing.

Kelt · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:47

So it was eaten for food...are the RSPCA going to prosecute for the billions of creatures we kill every day for consumption?

Efour · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:50

i hope the court bans them from ever making the show again and a few people are hung, drawn and quartered, and their heads stuck on pikes as a warning.

Crappest tv show ever

Beasty · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:52

Seems a bit uncalled for but then I think that about the grubs and think the program is utter swill.

I just don't think that they really needed to do that, they weren't really starving and never would have been in any danger of starvation.

Nick1881 · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:57

In the show Shipwrecked they killed and ate a pig, the killing wasn't shown on air but the sound of it squealing was aired, nothing ever came from that.

Surely this is no different, I was shocked to see that it's going to court, what a waste of time.

Amnesia · 8 Dec 2009 at 11:03

i dont think coverage like this does the rspca any favours.

Yamahahahahaha · 8 Dec 2009 at 11:19

It's not really performance if they ate it surely?

It's not like they danced around poking it with sticks while singing ABBA tunes?

If it was just part of a 'bushtucker trial' where they had to decapitate a rat to win a prize, then that might be cruel. But it wasn't. It was dinner. So it's not cruel.