[joglynne]

I am not a vegetarian by a long shot so I'm having problems deciding what I feel about the rat being killed and eaten. One side of me says that killing the rat for food was just this side of acceptable.

The other side of me feels that no animal should be killed in this way just to titillate an audience. These contestants weren't starving, merely bored with their diet.

If we all had to personally slaughter the animals we eat maybe we would all eat less meat which I understand would go a fair way to easing our problems with global warming ... another thread I know.