Rat cooking lands TV show in hot water

Jazzy · Post by **Jazzy** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:35 am

SYDNEY – Two stars of the "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" television show have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming.

Chef Gino D'Acampo, who won the viewer-feedback contest series, and actor Stuart Manning were charged after animal welfare activists lodged a complaint about a segment for the British TV program, which was filmed in Australia, the activists and British media reported Sunday.

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AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:16 pm

Oh dear me. We are a savage lot Down Under. I've never actually seen this program but apparently:

"I'm a Celebrity" strands C-list celebrities in the Australian jungle, subjects them to a series of icky trials involving spiders and snakes, and allows the public to vote them off the show one by one.

What an amazing, original idea!!!

And someone actually clobbered a rat, without having the RSPCA present - and tossed it on the barbie. They should be infracted for sure.

Here's some rat recipes

Weird Recipes Rats Recipes Rat Cooking

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:31 pm

If they killed the rat cleanly, and did not let it suffer, and they killed it for eating - which they did, then I can't see where the cruelty is FFS. Rabbits are killed for the pot, so why the heck can't they kill a rat for the pot? It wouldn't be my choice of menu, I have to say, but they obviously needed to eat some meat, so....................

The only thing I can think of that may be wrong, is if that segment was transmitted before the watershed. Then it would be the television company at fault, not those who killed the rat !

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:21 pm

I guess I'm not really that much of a purist, Gilly. When clobbering a rat - or any other rodent - or even humans who need killing - I've always found it's best just to lash out blindly, hard as you can -with whatever comes to hand. It may not be clean or nice - but it's usually quite effective. Of course, I hope I'd have the presence of mind to turn off the television cameras first. Neater than having to toss the cameraman on the barbie as well as the rattie.

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:46 pm

They should have told the viewers that rattie was the main ingredient in the authentic ratatouille they were about to make! 96% of the viewers would have believed them! :rolleyes:

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:54 pm

Rapunzel;1270481 wrote: They should have told the viewers that rattie was the main ingredient in the authentic ratatouille they were about to make! 96% of the viewers would have believed them! :rolleyes:

Absolutely! Bon appetit!

mikeinie · Post by **mikeinie** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:43 am

OK, so people sit in their living rooms and enjoy watching desperate fame seeking people do endless degrading things to themselves week after week and then get all sad and humane when a rat is eaten?

What about all the other live insects and shyte they are made to eat on the show?

It is a show about bottom feeders designed to entertain bottom feeders, who gives a feck about a rat.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:45 am

I think the show should be axed, no future ones. I agree with you Mike, it's degrading, and cruel to the creatures that they use for whatever reason.

The 'reality show' that I thought was ever worth watching was the one where about 20 people from all walks of life were flung together on an off-shore island in Scotland. They had to fend for themselves, and make the best out of what they had at their disposal, and survive for about a year ! That was when Mr. Ben Fogle came into his own, and made an impact ! Now he's a very successful broadcaster/presenter in his own right!

All the other 'reality' shows are so much a waste of time, and pathetic! :rolleyes:

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:21 pm

Everyone will be forced to be vegetarian soon?

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:23 pm

Honestly, a raise of hands...

Who gives a flying rat's a

s if anyone cooks a rat and eats it? So long as the rat wasn't tortured of course

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:09 pm

G#Gill;1270456 wrote: If they killed the rat cleanly, and did not let it suffer, and they killed it for eating - which they did, then I can't see where the cruelty is FFS. Rabbits are killed for the pot, so why the heck can't they kill a rat for the pot? It wouldn't be my choice of menu, I have to say, but they obviously needed to eat some meat, so....................

The only thing I can think of that may be wrong, is if that segment was transmitted before the watershed. Then it would be the television company at fault, not those who killed the rat !

I don't think killing a rat to eat is quite the point here . It was a tame rat tha tthe TV execs make out that these celebs had nothing else to eat. Ummm it's a tv show no need to kill a tame rat and eat it for entertainment purposes. they could have just asked the camera crew for a biscuit

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:21 pm

Sigh.. okay.. sorry I posted the rat recipes. Didn't read the whole story. Don't watch reality television anyway. So register me too as aghast etc etc.

My family once had a rat as a pet. Saved from a laboratory. He was a very nice rat.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:31 pm

Oh you know me Pam, I'm not a PETA supporter by any stretch . *sigh* I guess more people will watch the show now.

Nothing wrong with eating rat .....well actually there is. They are carnivors so therefore we really shouldn't eat them.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:53 pm

I hadn't read anywhere that the rat was tame...

All I read was that these people allegedly killed and ate a rat for "entertainment".

Forget about people traveling great distances to eat rats...My concern is with "The maximum penalty is three years in prison"..."three years in prison" for eating a rat?

Anyone willing to send anyone to prison for three years for eating a rat f

en need smacked

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:45 am

I killed and ate tons of squirrels. A squirrel is just a little higher in the rat family. Much cleaner in diet and living quarters though. Tasty little critters when prepared right. When I was a kid my gramps made me a cap from squirrel skins, with a tail on the back. Kinda like Davy Crockett's coonskin cap. I was the envy of the neighborhood.

Jazzy · Post by **Jazzy** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:10 am

YouTube - Ratatouille Teaser

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 11:48 am

hoppy;1271192 wrote: I killed and ate tons of squirrels. A squirrel is just a little higher in the rat family. Much cleaner in diet and living quarters though. Tasty little critters when prepared right. When I was a kid my gramps made me a cap from squirrel skins, with a tail on the back. Kinda like Davy Crockett's coonskin cap. I was the envy of the neighborhood.

The Kentucky version of Davy Crockett :yh_rotfl

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:49 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1271149 wrote: Oh you know me Pam, I'm not a PETA supporter by any stretch . *sigh* I guess more people will watch the show now.

Nothing wrong with eating rat .....well actually there is. They are carnivors so therefore we really shouldn't eat them.

Nope - omnivores, same as pigs.

And the country ones eat much the same diet as boar unlike their city brethren.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:07 pm

The rat's head in hand bear I,

Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary;

I pray you, Gardeners, be merry,

Quot estis in convivio.

Caput Ratti defero

Reddens laudes Tombstono.

The rat's head, as I understand,

Is the rarest dish in all this land;

Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland.

Let us servire cantico.

Caput Ratti defero

Reddens laudes Tombstono.

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