TikTokers upset after Gordon Ramsay chooses a lamb for the slaughter



Gordon Ramsay has upset the vegans and a whole lot of other people who are angry on the internet.

The celebrity chef, 55, is facing backlash from some users on TikTok after posting a video where he chooses a live lamb to be slaughtered and prepared for dinner.

In the video, which was posted Thursday, Ramsay climbs into a pen containing about ten spotless little lambs. Grinning furiously and rubbing his hands together, he says, "I'm going to eat you" in sing-song.

"Yummy yum yum," he says. "Which one's going in the oven first?" Then he points at one of the sheep and says: "You."

After that he jumps in the pen, startling the lambs, and stalks towards the one he's chosen.

"Oven time!" he says.

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The Lamb sauce was still not found in the making of this video…..

The short 28-second video was shared to his 33.3 million followers and has been viewed more than 9 million times. Its caption reads: "The Lamb sauce was still not found in the making of this video." This was a reference to a viral scene from a 2006 episode of "Hell's Kitchen," a TV competition series in which Ramsay yelled at chef contestants demanding, "where is the lamb sauce."

"No animals were cooked in the making of this video," Ramsay added, according to Insider, which first reported the outrage over the chef's video.

While more than 1 million people "liked" the video, several users posted negative comments, expressing horror and outrage over how the animals were treated.

"Those beautiful little babies , what people will do for views. It’s a sad world we live in," one user commented.

"i'm not even vegetarian but this is very sad," another person wrote.

"What a classless, out-of-touch and heartless way to treat another sentient being," said one user wrote in a duet video, reacting to Ramsay's post.

"Nothing like a cruel display of cognitive dissonance. Folks know eat animals, but why scare them and treat them this way on top of it," the caption read.

Another user accused Ramsay of "animal abuse" in a reaction video.

"Do you think that grown men should be teaching children on TikTok that animal abuse is funny," the person commented.

Yet another user called out both Ramsay and the people making jokes about the video in the comments section, NBC News reported.

"Those are babies. Literal babies," the person said in the duet. "This is not normal behavior ... it's not funny. it's not entertaining and if you think animals don't understand us, look how scared they are when he gets in the pen."

Ramsay has become popular on TikTok by posting videos reacting to other people's recipes and rating their culinary creations, as well as his own content. He has neither commented on the outrage nor said how his lamb chops tasted.

Gordon Ramsay moves business headquarters to Texas from California, CEO cites tax policies and cost of living



Yet another celebrity businessman is moving his headquarters from tax-heavy California to Texas.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, known for TV shows such as "Hell's Kitchen" and for operating high-class restaurants worthy of coveted Michelin stars, is moving his North American restaurant operations from Los Angeles to Las Colinas, a suburb in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

What are the details?

The move comes as Gordon Ramsay North America is planning a massive expansion and investment in the United States that includes opening 75 company-owned restaurants over the next five years, the Dallas Morning News reported.

But why move to Dallas? Company CEO Norman Abdallah pointed to tax policies — and especially the financial benefits of operating from Texas — as encouraging the move.

"The cost of living adjustment [from California to Texas] is pretty substantial," Abdallah explained. "If you can make it in Dallas, you can make it anywhere."

Ramsay may also have been prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The entrepreneur admitted in February that his restaurants suffered losses of approximately $80 million in the pandemic — and that was in the United Kingdom alone. Given Ramsay's substantial existing portfolio in the U.S., he likely suffered well over $100 million in total losses due to shutdowns.

Ramsay told Insider that he recycles his own money back into his restaurants because he understands how many livelihoods depend on his success.

"I have always put my money back into the business. ... I've never been greedy, I've always been very, very generous," Ramsay explained. "I get criticised for being wealthy, but the responsibility on my shoulders — the livelihoods at stake — is huge."

Anything else?

While Ramsay himself is not moving to Texas — he splits his time between Los Angeles and the U.K. — a host of major companies have recently relocated their headquarters to Texas from California.

In fact, multiple Fortune 500 companies have relocated to Texas in the last six years, including Charles Schwab, Jacobs, McKesson Corp., CBRE Group, Core-Mark International, Oracle, Tesla, and Hewlett-Packard.

And it's only getting worse for California.

The Hoover Institute at Stanford University released a report in August finding that 74 companies had relocated out of California during the first six months of 2021. By comparison, only 62 companies moved their headquarters to California in all of 2020.