Fear Factor Standards?

I watched part of a Fear Factor rerun on FX last night. One stunt involved the contestants picking up dead rats in their mouths, running them about 30 feet and spitting them into a garbage pail. Some rats missed and landed on the floor.

It appeared that "fresh" dead rats were provided to each contestant because no one in their right mind would put a dead rat in their mouth after it had been in someone else's mouth.

There is some truly weird stuff on television.