UK Celebs Charged For Eating Rat 23
Jbabe writes "Two men have been charged after cooking a rat and serving it with rice as a meal for fellow contestants on a reality TV show. D'Acampo, 33, and Manning, 30, were confronted by RSPCA and were both charged with animal cruelty offenses and ordered to appear in court on February 3. If found guilty, the pair face up to three years in jail. Broadcasters of the program in Britain could also face charges. RSPCA NSW chief inspector David O'Shannessy said it was unacceptable for the rat to have been killed for a TV show. The concern is this was done purely for the cameras. The show's producers were ordered by the RSPCA to hand over footage showing how the rat, which was believed to be tame, was killed."
Animals eat other animals.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Humans are Animals, we eat other animals as well as vegetable matter. We are omnivores.
Get over yourselves you pretentious jackasses who think you are holier than though who wear leather shoes and then have the gall to tell us not to eat Hamburgers.
Oh and we kill Rats all of the time with Traps and sticky glue traps, ever see a rat on a sticky glue trap? It is horrible compared to how they killed this thing. The rat gets stuck to this pad of glue and cannot move, the more the move the more they get stuck. They eventually starve to death and in some cases get eaten by other rats as they squeal with pain.
Plus what about the whole idea that eating rats is probably more carbon neutral than eating the equivalent amount of beef????
Rodents are nothing more than mammals that fill a similar niche that most insects occupy anyways, bottom of the food chain. Nature will make more of them and they are hardy little critters. They survived the K-T extinction event didn't they?