Good Morning Britain viewers shocked as host Richard Madeley eats squirrel live on air

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Richard Madeley seemed to enjoy sampling squirrel meat live on Good Morning Britain. Sat beside co-host Kate Garraway, the 67 year old TV veteran had just opened the floor to a debate over whether the food industry should introduce the tree-jumping rodents - the Grey species specifically - for more regular human consumption on Monday's show, 28 August.

The rodents are being mass culled unfolds across the UK in order to protect our native and endangered Red variety. An American member of PETA accused cullers of "quite literally blasting the brains out of these animals or trapping them and then bludgeoning them to death", before Richard argued how a strong sense of squirrel sentimentality may be clouding the real problem of an invasive species. "More and more we're recognising that animals aren't actually burgers or sausages, they're living beings that deserve to live," she replied. "They don't need to be culled and I think sometimes hunters, they use that rhetoric just to disguise the fact that they actually like killing these animals. "There is a humane solution to every perceived problem.

In this instance, there's vaccinations for red squirrels, there's actually oral contraceptives, there's habitat modification..." Having shaken his head throughout this monologue, Welsh farmer Gareth Wynn Jones claimed: "That is the biggest joke I've ever heard.