Us Brits are apparently a nation of animal lovers.
Yeah, right.
Why, then, do we enjoy watching “celebrities” eating kangaroo bottoms and various other disgusting parts of animals that, let’s face it, are NOT necessary to eat? How many animals died in making I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here over the numerous series that it’s been on air? Don’t get me wrong – I’m not an animal liberation person, a vegetarian, a vegan or anything that would imply that I don’t eat meat. Far from it, I love my pork, bacon, chicken, fish, etc. But what I don’t understand is how animal parts from creatures we would not normally find on a typical menu at a Harvester pub restaurant chain are on the menu for a TV show. There’s no point in it. If you really wanted to gross people out, you might as well make the celebrities eat raw cabbage and drink sewage water. Or alternatively they let the celebrities eat human flesh.
Then there are the games in which insects, arachnids, snakes, furry animals of all descriptions are groped, prodded and disturbed for the sake of entertainment. Do spiders really like being subjected to some of those “celebrities”? I think they’re rather eat their young. Oh, some of them do.
And of course, if that weren’t enough, there is the carbon footprint of flying everybody over to Australia, building and maintaining the sets, cameras and other equipment. All of it not cheap in terms of cost, and certainly not cheap in terms of the environment.
Then again, it wouldn’t be the show it is today if it were shot in Croydon on a backstage, using glove puppets as replacements for the animals, or marzipan kangaroos doodahs for the bushtucker trial.
