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Amazing Race Terence And Sarah Get Silenced By Sheep

Written by Vegetarian Star on November 17th, 2008 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Reality TV.


Reality TV time has ended for the Amazing Race couple with the veggie half, Terence and Sarah. And it ended on a very sour note.

Terence, as you can recall us telling you, has been a vegetarian for 15 years. However, during last night’s aired episode, he and Sarah decided to participate in the “Fast Forward,” challenge without knowing what the “challenge” consisted of. He soon found out that challenge was to eat sheep.

“We sat down in that restaurant and everything they served me made me absolutely ill,” Terence said.

Most would suspect that if you haven’t eaten meat in years and start doing so, you might experience some problems here and there. This was true for Terence as he attempted to eat the sheep, gagging several times, and eventually giving up.

“I can run marathons, I can do triathlons, but I could not swallow that food to save my life,” Terence said to host Phil Keoghan. Interestingly enough, since Terence couldn’t complete the Fast Forward, he had to perform another non-vegetarian task-dressing up as a cow. But they were not able to overcome to delay caused by the Fast Forward competition and ultimately had to say good-bye.

Many vegetarians would not have attempted to eat the sheep, thus compromising their beliefs, even if a million dollars were at stake. Still, in the heat of the moment and coming so far in the race, some, like Terence, may have given it a try (and most likely regretted, due to both physical pain and moral guilt).

But should CBS have done more to accommodate those with restrictive eating habits? And should they have told the couples in advance that eating meat could be a requirement along the race? If someone were allergic to meat, there would probably be no hesitation about offering a meatless substitute for the challenge.

Chime in and give us your thoughts.  Was this fair game or just inconsiderate?

Image: CBS

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7 Responses to “Amazing Race Terence And Sarah Get Silenced By Sheep”

  1. Vegan Sheep Says:

    Baaa. Naaasty.

  2. Daniel Says:

    Terrible to make him eat the meat. Booooo to CBS. Would they have made a Muslim eat pork? That made it totally unfair for Terence.

  3. Heidi Says:

    It seems like every food challenge on Amazing Race has been with
    a meat product. On the funny side, the meat is always something
    disgusting, and while all meat eating is disgusting, I can’t imagine they will ever have a food challenge of Tofu! It just goes to show how yummy a veggie diet is.

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  7. SAm Says:

    It’s awful and so wrong! Why should we be mace to eat meat! Re-do!