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Post by Starchild on Mar 1, 2007 15:10:46 GMT
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Post by stormy on Mar 2, 2007 1:10:00 GMT
lol i ve just been talking about this on the post education of stupid people.
i think personally its a good and bad idea. i dont know why they just dont have a profgram explaining where we get our food from, without guests appearing, its bloody obvious that anyone who is a vegan/vegi, wont like the whole animal killing thing.
i just hope the farms they show arent run by idiots that give us a bad name.
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Post by Starchild on Mar 6, 2007 7:10:33 GMT
Was it any good? 10.30pm was a bit late for me to stay up.
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Post by dazza on Mar 6, 2007 13:17:09 GMT
I dunno, there was something unconvincing about it as a whole.
The coverage of the felling and bleeding out was straight up as was the skinning and processing. There was also a vet-tech giving commentary on what was going on which provided some good insight for those unfamiliar with the slaughtering process.
Where it started to get a bit surreal was with the live-cookery-show / audience reaction bit. I really not sure what this added beyond highlighting the already well known national naivety to all things animal.
I found it bizarre that they would take the carcass straight into butchery and food prep - the meat was still warm without rigor mortis or maturation. It did look somewhat flaccid and unappealing, but once cooked (flash fried) elicited the expected oohs and aahs of the "mechanically reclaimed” munching audience.
If the purpose was to educate, why not show the fresh and then feed them properly hung and matured meat (you could tell the butcher there would have preferred this). They would have then tasted and experienced the final proper “meat” product rather than just fresh killed animal. I’ve had both and there is a big difference.
I came out with something of a "so-far-so-what?" attitude to be honest. All the vegetarians in the audience were still all vegetarians and all the meat eaters all responded from the “I’ll still continue eating meat but have more respect about where it came from…” cue card.
In summary, the following through of the abattoir process was interesting and necessarily graphic. The “We’ve installed windows and hidden cameras throughout…” bit was a little too Big Brother House and the audience “Ready Steady Cook” section afterwards was just strange and probably unnecessary. I will watch the next one but I doubt if I’ll make the series.
Sorry you missed it hope that helps! All my own opinion of course and I'd value other viewpoints ;D
- Dazza.
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Post by Starchild on Mar 6, 2007 13:51:30 GMT
maybe they'll repeat it at some point, preferably on a friday night . t'other half has to get up at 5.30am to go to work at pig farm
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Post by stormy on Mar 7, 2007 0:05:08 GMT
piggiessssssssss.
look i have just woken up
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