Viewers of Gregg Wallace’s latest documentary were left feeling sick to their stomachs, watching on in horror as he visited a ‘human meat’ factory.
Yes, you read that right. The MasterChef star fronted Channel 4 doc Miracle Meat, which saw him investigate a controversial new lab-grown meat product.
The programme followed Greg, 58, to Lincolnshire, as he learned about how steaks, burgers, sausages, bacon, and more, could be harvested from ‘thin slices of human tissue’.
Basically, the draw was that ‘human flesh’ is much cheaper than the animal alternative, costing as low as 99p per steak, allowing families to get by in the cost of living crisis.
What’s more, it was proposed that regular people could actually make money from it all if they wanted ‘donate cells’ to the practice.
Taking to Twitter as the show aired, Good Harvest – who branded themselves with the slogan ‘Meat the future’ – shared a graphic on how people could ‘sign up’ for the extraction.
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Well, thankfully, it was a spoof – but that didn’t stop viewers from becoming traumatised by it!
At the end of the doc, it was revealed to be satire, with the broadcaster keen to showcase the severity of the cost of living crisis.
A Channel 4 spokesperson told Metro.co.uk: ‘This “mockumentary” is a witty yet thought-provoking commentary on the extreme measures many people are being forced to take to stay afloat in our society during the cost of living crisis.
‘Channel 4 has a long and rich history of satire and has often used humour as an accessible way to highlight society’s most important issues.’
So, were you taken in?
Watch Miracle Meat on All 4.
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