Gregg Wallace Human Meat

When I saw the headline I thought Soylent Green, saw it as a double bill with Omega Man, still gives me the heebi geebies

I thought the prog was very creepy and certainly not entertaining! The only plus was that there was no swearing…🙄

Cannibalism is depravity and never something to make light of. Our mainstream TV channels should not be putting out fake news without a warning before and during the programme.

Apparently it was ‘satire’
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/26/british-miracle-meat-story-behind-one-best-hoaxes-tv-history?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

oldeman

If you don't like it, don't eat it.

I didn't see it but this morning the Today programme had an interview with the director. It seems to me that it would have been better shown on April 1st.

Georgesgran

As I said upthread there’s a series of these Mockumentaries made, so watch out - there’s more to come.
The Guardian commented that it took a while for the penny to drop though.

Along with fake news and deepfake stuff there are mockumentaries that will have people believing it. Just why they do them is another story, they think they’re being super clever and funny. Well, no they aren’t!

I didn’t watch it, but they’ve just showed some of it on Jeremy Vine 🤢🤮

‘Gregg Wallace: Human Meat’

Well, that’s one way of describing him…

Hope so Chestnut but someone has started up a second thread now.

Georgesgran

It wasn’t a documentary - it was a mockumentary - a spoof!!
In other words ‘a joke’ albeit in poor taste, but it doesn’t seem to have dawned on some GNs yet?

I'm pretty sure everyone knows it was a spoof documentary . But that doesn't make it any less depraved.

Horrible even though it wasn't true. But spare a thought for farm animals who endure the horrific reality of meat production. The logos on the packaging designed to reassure people about their food choices mean nothing to a terrified animal in a slaughter house.

Blech 🤢 Haven’t watched it to the end, quit almost straight away. Glad I didn’t know, or my whole strong brew box would have been empty by dawn

To all those who survived it

It wasn’t a documentary - it was a mockumentary - a spoof!!
In other words ‘a joke’ albeit in poor taste, but it doesn’t seem to have dawned on some GNs yet?

This documentary and it's subject human meat is disgusting, not funny, no good, and I am astonished that C4 would think it's ok to make this sort of rubbish!

If you don't like it, don't eat it.

Hetty58

I'm actually in favour of lab grown meat (soon to be 'factory grown'). It's very efficient as only muscle meat is cultured. Following the initial harvest of some cells (unfortunately, a little pain, equivalent to a blood test - on one animal) they can be reproduced endlessly.

Despite the fact that eating meat is optional and unnecessary, (so it goes against my principles) I'm a realist - so at least all those millions of short, painful lives could be spared.

I'm in favour of it too, although I know a lot of vegans aren't. I think it is unrealistic to expect that all meat eaters will stop eating it, and this method would be a game changer for the billions of animals suffering every day at present.

I didn’t see the programme but agree with several people that Greg WALLIS is the most annoying person on TV and doesn’t deserve all the work he gets

Oops sorry - just googled it and it's Soylent !

I'm not a fan of Gregg Wallace and find him unpleasant .

Definitely a programme in very poor taste .

Solent Green ( a dystopia from the early seventies ) in which life has become intolerable for everyone except the ruling elite - sounds familiar ?

The poor were obliged to eat Solent Red or Yellow and tastier still , was Solent Green .
Only Solent Green was processed from the deceased from the government euthanasia centres .

Fernhillnana, they don't want to know or understand. It doesn't suit them, so we always get the backlash (due to their uncomfortable cognitive dissonance). Wait for it!

Well I don’t ear animal eat so wouldn’t be eating human cells
I m not interested in Greg Wallace
Not interested in science fiction
So good job I didn’t know anything about it 😂

I'm actually in favour of lab grown meat (soon to be 'factory grown'). It's very efficient as only muscle meat is cultured. Following the initial harvest of some cells (unfortunately, a little pain, equivalent to a blood test - on one animal) they can be reproduced endlessly.

Despite the fact that eating meat is optional and unnecessary, (so it goes against my principles) I'm a realist - so at least all those millions of short, painful lives could be spared.

Hazelnuts:

'if you continue to eat red meat you buy from a traceable source where the animals are treated with respect and dignity'

Really? Misinformattion or ignorance? If you continue to eat red meat at least admit that you support cruelty. There is no meat production without pain and suffering.

Absolutely! Meat eaters don’t understand this at all.