Denis Brogniart and his secret weapon: the “Koh-Lanta” totem -

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While the Koh-Lanta game is the subject of criticism for showing candidates bullying animals, television host Denis Brogniart reacted on Sud radio, saying that the candidates had not fished "for the pleasure to fish ”but“ to eat ”.

Friday, in the first episode of "Koh-Lanta, the secret weapons", the candidates of the red team tried to kill stingrays with a machete, without success.

They then attacked a moray eel, which they tried to crush, without succeeding.

Harmful message to the youngest

Shocked viewers questioned the channel, as well as the association Peta, which wrote a letter to TF1, asking the leaders to "no longer support animal suffering"

“Torturing and killing animals on screen is an extremely immoral way of trying to attract viewers, especially at a time when respect for animals is increasingly important to everyone.

In addition, it sends a harmful message to the youngest who view these cruel scenes that are passed off for entertainment, ”says PETA in its letter to the CEO of TF1.

"It's part of the show"

Guest of Sud Radio this Thursday, March 18, Denis Brogniart rejected these accusations: "Do you think that the angler when he takes a fish with a hook, he does so without making the fish" suffer "a little? ?

At some point, you have to stop it.

We are on a program where [the candidates] have nothing and where they are told to use the natural environment, to continue living in this adventure.

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Then, responding to one of the Sud Radio journalists who was “the devil's advocate” and pointed out that candidates and candidates do not really need to hunt for food, but that they are put in this situation by TF1, Denis Brogniart retorted again: "When you eat a chicken, a steak, and I do not put myself on the side of vegetarians, that means that somewhere at a time we killed an animal previously.

We don't do the show, we show: Koh-Lanta is to show what's going on.

And indeed, foraging is part of the show.

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