The RTVE Hearing Advocate, Ángel Nodal , has recommended to TVE to "completely dispense" in the future of broadcasting images in MasterChef in which animals are skinned, after the rejection of several spectators to a sequence of the program where they were asked to contestants who will eviscerate and skin a hare .

"It seems disgusting to me that in a program paid in part with my taxes, it looks like an animal is skinned. It is disgusting and delectable, " criticized Ana in her complaint sent to the Office of the Ombudsman.

In the second quarterly report of 2019, the RTVE Hearing Advocate argues that if the program needs to "verify that the contestants know how to perform such tasks, they have more than enough hours to do it without the presence of the cameras ."

As stated in the document, the director of Entertainment of TVE, Toñi Prieto , has apologized to the spectators that "they have been hurt in their sensibility" and has assured that "nothing is further from the intention of the program".

"We believe that to form a good cook you have to put into practice many techniques such as skinning a rabbit, a hare or collapsing a chicken. If they do not do this, they may have a lack when it comes to cooking, " he argues. Tight, and then add that "in no case has there been an animal abuse because it was already dead." In addition, he notes that in the future these considerations of the spectators will be taken into account .

On the other hand, in the assessment made by Ángel Nodal, he warns that "boosting the show with this type of evidence is absolutely unnecessary and causes rejection by the audience" of the public network.

Last year, the Ombudsman received several complaints about the use of a live eel in a Junior MasterChef test , which questioned the suitability of children being forced to kill the animal. "It is clear that these types of images hurt the sensitivity of our audience," he says.

Ángel Nodal was confident that those responsible for the program would take into account the considerations of the people who had contacted his office. "In the first place, because for the realization of the test it was not essential to show the eel alive and in the second, because in doing so, the controversy is unnecessarily fed on whether the animal was used as part of the show, " the defender argued.

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