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."
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Kill squirrels by feeding them bubble gum, it blocks them up and they cannot poop it out nor can they puke it out. On the plus side bubble gum doesn't affect animals that eat squirrels like hawks, foxes, cats, etc.... Which is better than poisoning them as you don't poison the upstream predators.
They are rodents, they will make more and believe me there is a reason they call it "breeding like rabbits"
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Fruit flavored gum like cheap double bubble or any pink fruity gum works the best on squirrels. A big batch of that is cheaper than the commercially availible squirrel poison out there.
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That's... awful. Squirrels are nice and killing them doesn't do any good.
At least they ate the rat.
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I really don't see the difference to killing and eating a rat in front of the camera and buying meat from the market to eat in front of the camera. In both cases an animal died for food. It gets worse though. In Victoria (the state bordering NSW to the south) the bleeding heart animal wuvvers are trying to put through legislation to mandate walking a dog every day...
I guess it's just one of the signs of a wealthy society. People don't have to spend all their time working at the basics of existence anymore,
It's a human (Score:2)
In Victoria (the state bordering NSW to the south) the bleeding heart animal wuvvers are trying to put through legislation to mandate walking a dog every day.
That's probably intended as cruelty to fat lazy humans. Which is both legally sanctioned and officially encouraged.
Of course, if the dog is fat and lazy and acclimatized to the air-conditioned indoors, then it might die of a heart attack or heat exhaustion when dragged out in the blazing sun for walkies. The fact that taking it for that fatal walk was legally mandated won't save your ass from the malevolence of the do-gooders.
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?
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Rats and Mice are the last animal I would ever care about going extinct or suffering. Because they are some of the animals that cause the most human suffering through the ages and will probably inherit the earth someday after we hopefully left for better worlds....
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Not tame rats.
Actually, they are bred in large numbers for the good of mankind (laboratory animals)
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they are bred in even larger numbers to be fed live to snakes and lizards.
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they are bred in even larger numbers to be fed live to snakes and lizards.
That's horrible! Obviously we must starve the snakes to prevent animal cruelty.
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Indeed.
BTW, if the image of the white rat is the actual rat in question, it really does look like a feed stock rat as nearly all of them are white.
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I think it has more to do with it being killed just for show, apparently.
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The real news here is that the RSPCA has the power to bring criminal proceedings against you. That they don't like it is their business, that you can still do it should be everyone's business.
A rat is a rat is a rat (Score:1)
"It was the best recipe I ever did," he said afterwards.
"believed to be tame"
"Millions of Britons tune in each year to watch the show, which features celebrity contestants having to undergo "bush tucker trials" involving snakes, spiders and other insects found in the "jungle".
(So was the rat tame or wild? Does it make a difference? If the show is about being in the jungle I highly doubt it being tame.)
There's absolutely nothing wrong with killing a 'wild' animal for food. In fact I thought that was the whol
At least the Rat had a good life (Score:1)