 I'M
AN ANIMAL
Get me out of here!
Since series 3 of 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!'
began on 26th January, wild animals including rats, eels, ostriches, insects,
snakes and worms have been 'used' in the shows cruel and ridiculous endurance
tests.
The first show saw an eel tipped onto a mound of maggots inside a tank in which
one of the contestants had his head. The eel was visibly distressed - not surprising
considering it lives in water and would not have been able to breathe properly!
Insects and 'witchetty grubs' have been eaten alive, other animals confined
to small tanks with celebrities made to crawl over them, and on one particularly
upsetting occasion rats were seen being brushed off and thrown back into a tank
of water out of which the celebrity climbed, her body being what they had clung
to in order to stop drowning. One 'animal handler' was seen holding a rat by
his/her tail and then deliberately dropping him/her head first back in to the
tank.
Despite their declaration to the contrary, the programme makers are showing
an obvious disregard for animal welfare: animals are being harmed, they are
being caused fear and distress, and they are dying. The producers were inundated
with complaints last year regarding the treatment of animals. (One show in the
last series involved goldfish and eels crashing through the bottom of a tank
and left floundering on the floor, gasping for breath as they died.)
If Granada are allowed to get away with this abuse yet again, who knows
what cruel 'Bushtucker trials' they will think of next?
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