![]() It’s not perfect: a gag about “beer-fed Geordies” feels jarringly classist the satire sometimes feels about as subtle as a clown plank in the face. Little wonder that Ofcom received hundreds of complaints.) ![]() The “premium” meat turns out to be from children who are allowed to play beforehand so their flesh isn’t “stressed”. A Good Harvest executive smilingly describes the process as “pain-subjective”. The relentlessly upbeat on-brand Wallace (“You can’t beat British grub!”) encounters impoverished people earning money by “donating” prime cuts of their bodies at “extraction plants”. It takes a while, but eventually a very dim bulb (10w at most) starts flickering in my brain as I register that Wallace is talking about “engineered human meat”, and that the Good Harvest packaging says: “Made by humans from humans.” Wot? By the time Wallace and Michel Roux Jr are doing a “taste test”, rhapsodising about a particularly succulent “mystery meat”, I’ve finally twigged that I’m watching a sociopolitical mockumentary, a straight-faced, grimly cannibalistic satire on the cost of living crisis.Ĭoncocted by Matt Edmonds ( The Comedy Bus), Jonathan Levene ( Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and director Tom Kingsley ( Ghosts Stath Lets Flats), The British Meat Miracle is inspired by Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay, A Modest Proposal, and once you catch on, the messaging is obvious. In Inside the Factory presenting mode, the turbo-enthused Wallace goes to the “Good Harvest” production plant to watch a technician demonstrate how cells transform into giant meat-blocks of “affordable protein”. ![]() I’m expecting a documentary on lab-grown meat and, at first, that’s how it goes. Well (abandon all hope of avoiding spoilers here), this rare thing happens in Gregg Wallace : The British Miracle Meat on Channel 4.
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