Food Network Extreme Chef

New program, I figured I'd give it a try. They were having a "rattlesnake challenge" which they mentioned in the commercials... while showing a ball python. I figured the ball would be lying there for show, and the rattlers would be processed snakes.

Well... sort of.

They had big crates(out in the full sun in the desert midday) that had several snakes in each, multiple species. Each seemed to have a large boid of some type(burms, boas) and ball pythons piled up in the boxes. There was a cloth bag that had the processed rattlesnake for the chefs to use. So they had to reach in through the icky snakes to get the food product.

I don't care if they cook rattlesnake. That's fine with me. But putting live animals in hazardous conditions(full sun in closed boxes) for a stunt? Not cool. One of the balls had a huge amount of stuck shed also.

I'm going to go fire off a letter to the network to tell them what I think of animal cruelty on the show.

I caught that too, and was about to flip my lid because I thought for a second that they had to kill and prepare a ball python/burm/boa constrictor for the meal. It was Extreme Chef after all...