I don't know, off-hand, who sponsors the TV shows. But for "Bear Grylls -Survival Race" there are a number of sponsors:
http://www.beargryllssurvivalrace.com/partners/
The thing is, I don't have a TV, and whatever I watch has to be on TV catch up online. Some shows don't feature on TV catch up.
This isn't the first time for Bear Grylls and/or the producers of his 'shows':
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...uelty.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebrit...-show.html
And this isn't a question of "if you want to eat meat you have to take full responsibility for it." Or "There was no other food available"....or "People in survival situations cannot afford to be sentimental or squeamish"....etc
This is not a question of any of those things. The animals were deliberately set up to be slaughtered cruelly, many of them tame!
My attitude is -if the animals could be specially flown in, then so could bags of lentils and beans and rice. And Bear Grylls could have had a talk with the group, explaining that in SOME survival situations, animals may need to be killed, and give verbal guidance on how to do that most effectively or humanely.
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Some ideas from PETA, plus a short video where Bear Grylls is held to account for what happened at a book promotion:
http://www.peta.org.uk/blog/watch-bear-g...stitution/
http://www.beargryllssurvivalrace.com/partners/
The thing is, I don't have a TV, and whatever I watch has to be on TV catch up online. Some shows don't feature on TV catch up.
This isn't the first time for Bear Grylls and/or the producers of his 'shows':
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...uelty.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebrit...-show.html
And this isn't a question of "if you want to eat meat you have to take full responsibility for it." Or "There was no other food available"....or "People in survival situations cannot afford to be sentimental or squeamish"....etc
This is not a question of any of those things. The animals were deliberately set up to be slaughtered cruelly, many of them tame!
My attitude is -if the animals could be specially flown in, then so could bags of lentils and beans and rice. And Bear Grylls could have had a talk with the group, explaining that in SOME survival situations, animals may need to be killed, and give verbal guidance on how to do that most effectively or humanely.
*************************************
Some ideas from PETA, plus a short video where Bear Grylls is held to account for what happened at a book promotion:
http://www.peta.org.uk/blog/watch-bear-g...stitution/
