This is one of those posts where the story is less about the incident and more about the fact that NBC News decided to pick it up and make it national news. That’s a thing you have to watch with media: not only the spin they put on stories, but which stories they choose to pursue and which they choose to ignore.
We’re learning that chef Gordon Ramsey is facing backlash on TikTok (oh no!) for suggesting that a lamb looked “yummy.”
Chef Gordon Ramsay is facing backlash on TikTok after posting a video in which he appeared to select a lamb to slaughter for a meal, rubbing his hands together while repeatedly saying "yummy."
https://t.co/BikGxJa2B0— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 1, 2022
Kalhan Rosenblatt reports:
Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay is facing backlash on TikTok from some users after posting a video in which he appeared to select a lamb to slaughter for a meal.
On Thursday, Ramsay posted a video of himself climbing into a pen of roughly ten pristine, white lamb. In the video, Ramsay rubbed his hands together while repeatedly saying “yummy.”
“I’m going to eat you,” the chef said to the group of lamb.
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“What a classless, out-of-touch and heartless way to treat another sentient being,” one person wrote in a duet video.
Another person accused Ramsay of “animal abuse.”
“Do you think that grown men should be teaching children on TikTok that animal abuse is funny,” the person wrote in their response.
Won’t somebody think of the children!
I think it's cute. pic.twitter.com/fG6fq4UFXg
— Amie Whatserface (@AmieWohrer) August 1, 2022
Media always does this – on both sides. Takes the extraordinarily small number of objectors to anything and makes it sound as if it matters or is significant in any way. It doesn't and it isn't.
— Rounds (@RoundsR) August 1, 2022
Gen Z discovers the origins of meat.
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) August 1, 2022
Do people not know where their food comes from?
— Burns Like Whisky 🇺🇸 (@Scotch_Rox) August 1, 2022
I mean, he cooks lamb on TV all the time, where else would the food come from? Would this be the same with a cow, chicken or pig?
— David Ohl (@ohlhawkfan) August 1, 2022
Why do we have to slaughter animals?
Why can't we just buy them at the store?— Dr. Platimus (@SWGaspar) August 1, 2022
The tiktokers are always free to, you know, flick their fingers up and watch the next video as to remove the offensive video from their line of vision. That teeny tiny action would eliminate their sense of “revulsion.”
Not too much to ask.— Tracey (@lasolastracey) August 1, 2022
O, won't somebody think of the TikTokers
— Clifton Duncan (She/Her) (@cliftonaduncan) August 1, 2022
I'm praying for them 🙏
— RORO, 90s nostalgia bro (@tuttleryandavid) August 1, 2022
Oh no, backlash on TikTok from some guy with the handle @thevegansheepdog.
Related:
Hot take: You can’t put food on the table with an AR-15, which can decapitate a 10-year-old https://t.co/A76mkPJHgm
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 29, 2022
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