Mike was great to have got the pig, but . . .

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Max

Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 07:17 pm Click here to edit this post

According to what I read elsewhere, the fire was a controlled burn in the outback. Probably something like the controlled burns the forest service does from time to time to keep the underbrush from building up too much.

It came close to camp, but there was never any real danger of it overwhelming them. Of course, THEY didn't know that at the time!

Aja

Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:06 pm Click here to edit this post

Didn't anybody else hear the pig 'clicking' its teeth? Just as he was trying to grab it, the pig lunged at him 'clicking'.. that's a wild pig response.
It was obviously confused, the fire, never seen a human, lost... all could have been a factor, but the sound of the teeth and the pig charging towards him convinced me that this was for real.

Twiggyish

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 06:23 am Click here to edit this post

Aja, it could have been dazed and confused from the fire. It just seems funny that one team is talking about getting a pig and suddenly the other team has one. This pig just appears one day.

Max, excellent point about Kimmi.
"Why in heaven's name would you come on a survival show, knowing you'd have to live off the land at least a little bit, and then be so adamantly against eating meat?"

What did Kimmi expect? There can't be much vegetation in that area.

Lancecrossfire

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 07:26 am Click here to edit this post

Agreed that Kimmi may not have provided the greatest amount of thought to what "surviving" means in terms of food.

What gets to me more is her insistence that everyone else is wrong for eating meat. Who the heck made her the jello god?

Affinity

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 08:08 am Click here to edit this post

Vegetarians are baaaaad

Max

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 10:44 am Click here to edit this post

ROFLMAO, Lance! "The jello god." Great!!!

Twiggyish

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 10:58 am Click here to edit this post

Jello Goddess..lol

Glass

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 11:50 am Click here to edit this post

Wasn't gelatin (Jello) originally made from an animal product?? Bone/Beef marrow?? before chemical synthetics came along...

Digilady

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 11:52 am Click here to edit this post

Vegetarians. I should add this to the Funny Story folder, but...

I dated, of all things, a vegetarian SHRINK. We lived together for a while.

I learned one irrefutable fact about vegetarians: buddy, they sure do fart a lot. And why not? All that rabbit food... ROFL!

Egbok77

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 07:56 pm Click here to edit this post

Gu, here's what happened.

Michael the hunter is going to kill a pig.
Piggy just happens to come by.
Michael actually chases the piggy and catches it.
Piggy squeals, Michael stabs and stabs and stabs.
Piggy squeals it's last squeal.
Michael smears piggy's blood on his cheeks (face!)
Kuchas roast the piggy and eat their protein.
The end.

Guruchaz

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 10:21 pm Click here to edit this post

Yes, that sums it up and I don't see a problem with it.

Guruchaz

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 10:26 pm Click here to edit this post

I'm glad Complaining Kimmi hit the road tonight. Maybe there is a fresh boar waiting for her on the plane.

Seamonkey

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 11:30 pm Click here to edit this post

Nope.. just one HUGE carrot ;-)'

Riviere

Friday, February 23, 2001 - 03:37 am Click here to edit this post

These S2 people don't know the first thing about 'survival' but then, it's just an Oz sport camping, fishing & hunting trip compared to S1. I didn't care much for Kimmi and I'm no veggie, but she sure made points trying to ask why in the world Mike had to hunt down a pig when they did have fish, chickens, and should have considered, with little effort they could have had a longterm supply of fresh eggs. Kucha's nowhere near the starvation nor even near suffering point. Mike's the only pig there for wanting to kill any beast that moves. If anyone needed to kill for the food it's the Okagor because they're suffering & it shows. Kucha wasn't in need of more food and Mike was just showing off. Talk about a battle of the testosterone overloaded, I almost hope he and Jerri make the merger. What a pair of big egos who deserve each other. :)

Gail

Friday, February 23, 2001 - 04:15 am Click here to edit this post

I would think it takes a lot of food to feed seven adults. By killing the pig, they were able to let the chickens live a while longer and save them for maybe a day when they couldn't find any fish or other food.

I think, according to the show, they had been there about 10 days when Mike killed the pig. After 10 days of eating fish and rice and 1/6 of a chicken, I would have been pretty happy for something else.

One thing is evident . . . Kucha has won nearly all of the prize challenges. I don't know if eating chickens, eggs, and pork has improved their health that much but it sure has improved their moral.

Resortgirl

Friday, February 23, 2001 - 05:33 am Click here to edit this post

Not that I'm on Kimmi's side on this, but maybe she figured that she lives without meat in everyday life so she shouldn't have a problem without it in the Outback. She did however forget that she would have no other source of protein. She bugs me, but after tonight Alicia is the one I want off... she thinks she's so "bad" yuck!!!

Guruchaz

Friday, February 23, 2001 - 09:20 am Click here to edit this post

Kimmi had a traumatic experience as a teenager when her prize hog was sent off to be butchered. That's when she became a vegetarian according to one of the pieces of illiterature on the grocery checkout stands.

She was never going to convince 8 others to become vegetarians and her overcomplaining did her no good. I'm glad she's gone.


As for the pig, it's a dead issue now. (pun intended). I think we've talked it to death. We're beating it with a stick. There's no P-oink in talking about it anymore. uh huh huh!

Egbok77

Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:43 pm Click here to edit this post

Good P-oink Gu. Bygones.

Grooch

Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 07:21 am Click here to edit this post
'Survivor' Pig Killing Prompts New Law
BRISBANE (Reuters) - An Australian state is bringing in new animal welfare legislation following the controversial slaughter of a wild pig early this year by a participant in the hit U.S. reality show, ``Survivor.''

A new code of care for animal stars in film and television shows filmed in tropical Queensland would be introduced shortly, the state's primary industry minister said on Thursday.

Animal welfare groups were flooded with complaints and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals launched an investigation after ``Survivor,'' filmed in north Queensland's outback, screened a cast member killing a wild pig with a knife.

``It is very timely and at the end of the day I believe it will be very well received by not only the film and television industries but also our animal welfare groups as well,'' Primary Industry Minister Henry Palaszczuk said.

Breaches of the proposed new code would carry penalties of one year in jail and fines of up to A$22,500 (US$11,475).

The producers of the trouble-prone show, CBS, had already run into trouble with the law after two contestants were flown to an island in the ecologically sensitive Great Barrier Reef and returned with pieces of coral as souvenirs.

It is illegal to take coral from the World Heritage listed reef without a permit. Marine park officials said there were also complaints a helicopter used by the show had flown too close to rookeries