Gregg Wallace British Miracle Meat

[pastafreak]

On C4...is anyone watching this?
I'm at a loss for words ;)*

...and would like other's opinions on the subject matter.



*...too busy sniggering

[jackthehat]

Very bloomin' odd....
Took me a while but sort it out but I got there in the end. :o)

[ferlew]

I honestly thought it was a joke. But seemingly not.
Toddler tartare????? Sickening.
And that woman...."it's so creamy" and alost blackmailing the little lad who was hesitant to go and donate. Just feels so wrong on so many counts to me :(

[pastafreak]

Me too...initially shocked and disgusted...frantically googling for info...

then started spluttering with laughter.

[pastafreak]

It IS a joke ferlew

Thank goodness!

[jackthehat]

I'm not quite sure of the actual message it was trying to convey....it could have been any one of several.

[ferlew]

Really???? A joke ??????
Well, thank goodness, but extremely poor taste IMHO.

[retrocop]

I haven't followed what you are saying pastafreak. Is it about the recent American artificial laboratory engineering to clone chicken meat which I heard talk of a couple of weeks ago on LBC?
For the record in any case I have no time for Gregg Wallace. A Putney Greengrocer who's expertise on food was learnt off the backs of chefs who actually worked in Kitchens and knew how to cook. He managed to give judgement on Master chef which was a farce and I believe unfair to young aspirants who's knowledge in cooking was probably more knowledgeable than his. He may of opened and owned some restaurants but I bet he count handle the hands on business in the kitchen.

[pastafreak]

Retro...it was a fake documentary that was supposed to make us think about recent food crisis, cost of living, and our on going desire to consume meat. The *solution* was lab cultured human meat...manufactured from cells donated by hard up pensioners who get paid. By this point I was laughing.
Apparently scientists did some work in this direction a few years ago.

[retrocop]

Thanks pasta. I wasn't aware of this fake documentary although it looks like I was close in my guess. The Americans have managed to clone artificial fake chicken in the Lab and currently selling it for consumption in the states.
Your story smacks of Soylent Green with Edward G Robinson.

[retrocop]

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https://www.healthline.com/health-news/lab-grown-chicken-is-here-what-to-know

[douglas9401]

What's the meaning of the phrase 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'?

The proverb 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing' expresses the idea that a small amount of knowledge can mislead people into thinking that they are more expert than they really are, which can lead to mistakes being made.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably easier to go the soylent green path.

I'm entitled to a carnivore diet as I've no descendants to cause future problems. I'm part of the solution, not part of the problem.

[pastafreak]

I've read of lab grown meat in the past...not something I'd be queuing up to try. TBH I can see the human thing being a next step...but hopefully not in mine...or my daughter's...lifetime.
I imagine there would be moral and ethics issues.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Jonathan Swift pen a modest proposal to reduce poverty and hunger in Ireland? I think it was about eating babies.

[douglas9401]

The sage and social commentator Mucky Flannigan once said when referencing the Gregg, "It tastes the same but it costs less".

Words to ponder in these difficult times, worth chewing over if you will. :-)

[douglas9401]

Micky. :-)

[andy-hughes]

It has caused a bit if a kerfuffle it seems.

The problem lies in the fact that Channel 4's 'satitre' was not confirmed as such, so its point was lost in the confusion and outrage.

It probably didn't help the the programme was helmed by Greg Wallace, not a name that leaps to mind when thinking of anything as cerebral as a satirical poke Sr government policies.

I didn't watch it because he makes my head hurt, bur a shame for viewer's who were wound up in ways other than the programme makers and Channel 4 intended.

[naomi24]

I didn't watch it but I like Gregg. He makes me laugh.

[jackthehat]

sandyRoe - There was an acknowledgement given to Jonathan Swift in the closing credits.

[pastafreak]

I've seen comments in several reviews. It would seem that all viewer completely missed the satire and took it quite seriously.

Though one reviewer thought Gregg Wallace and his usual OTT approach was perfect for it. I'm not so sure...he's rather like Marmite so folks don't watch carefully if at all.