ROO MEAT BAN IN KILLINGS ROW
ICELAND has withdrawn kangaroo meat from sale after pressure from animal welfare activists.
The supermarket chain began selling packs of burgers made from the Aussie marsupials four years ago, on the back of the success of TV’s I’m A Celebrity.
But a backlash ensued as activists at Viva! campaigned against what CHLOE Madeley says her Six Nation Nations hunk James Haskell is the best thing to have happe happened to her and she canno cannot wait to marry him. The fitness adviser – daughter of TV presenters p Judy Finnigan and Ric Richard Madeley – has been dating rugby union star James, 32, for three years. C Chloe, 30, said: “James is the mo most kind-hearted man, other than my father, that I’ve ever met. It’s probably a good thing, since I’m hoping we end up married. “H “He’s very kind, loving and gene generous to a fault. At times I have to ra rail him in because he’s giving too m much. “So he’s, in terms of people that have come into my life, the best thing that has happened to me in my adult life. I just find they saw as the cruel way the animals were killed. The outcry led to Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons all stopping sales of roo meat.
Now Iceland has followed suit by pulling its £10 Exotic Meat Feast packs from shelves.
The packs labelled “bush tucker”, like the trials him incredibly inspiring, driven, generous, intelligent, and I look up to him a lot. It’s partly why I want to be with him.”
Chloe says it takes a lot for James’s rugby aggression to spill over off the field. She said: “He definitely has a temper in him, 100 per cent.
“But you have to push him to get him there – not like me.”
James was a late addition to England’s 2018 Six Nations squad, but will miss the first two games – including today’s opener against Italy – due to a four-week ban.
It was announced this week he will leave his current side, Coventry-based Wasps, at the end of this season.
And while he still hopes for two more years of rugby, Chloe revealed he will then move into mixed martial arts – a full-contact combat sport.
She said: “He’s really excited that he’s probably going to be doing that kind of training on a daily basis.
“I’m kind of waiting for that as he’s asked me to do it with him.” And the fitness fanatic says she is ruling out her own return to presenting, after stints on Big Brother’s Big Mouth with brother Jack and on Channel 5’s Live From Studio Five.
She admitted: “I found it very unexciting. I’ve been a runner and researcher on various shows – I actually preferred the researching role.
“Finding out about different things, pitching ideas – it was interesting. I started to question if I was doing the right thing.” in the Oz-based reality show, also had ostrich and crocodile meat. Viva! founder Juliet Gellatley said: “We are delighted that Iceland have taken kangaroo meat off the shelves after listening to concerns. “What was promoted as a bit of fun to British consumers hid the brutal reality that the kangaroo trade drives
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the largest massacre of land-based wild animals in the world today.”
Juliet said millions of kangaroos were shot in the Outback every year after being blinded by lights, and claimed that helpless babies were clubbed to death.
A spokesman for Iceland, which sponsored I’m A Celebrity until 2014, said: “We have removed all lines containing kangaroo meat in response to feedback.”