GRRRRRRRRRRR, I'm fuming!

Hugh Fearningly-Whittinstall has taken some townie fools and introduced them to the process of how meat ends up on their plate. Picture the scene if you will: An assortment of people who are shown the stages of how that tasty lamb cutlet goes from cute lamb to moresome morsel in an abbortoir. They are shown how the lambs are gutted, killed, hung and knocked out and with the exception of about 3 of them (and much kudos to those people) all bail out wailing and crying about the poor little lambkins and wringing their hands in guilt about ever eating such a lovely creature and how it's so horrible.

Newsflash! Meat comes from those white fluffy things you see on the side of hills you stupid moron! It doesn't grow on trees and isn't harvested from the hedgeways. It's killed and you eat it.

Why in this age of enlightenment are there still cretins which will stand there weeping as a lamb which has been killed in front of them at the sudden revelation that this is where their Sunday lunch comes from? I swear to God that these plebs cannot be from this planet with their pathetic reactions to what deep down they have known has happened.

Jesus H Christ! Townies ....... As a good country boy, I sh*t 'em.

Yup just shows what thinking people have thought for centuries - that eating meat is vile, and the only way to do it is to separate the meat on the plate from the reality of the process of how it got there.

Or to grow up amongst sheepsh*ggers.

i saw the "executions" by chance.tbh it wasn't as ghastly as i thought it would be.
obviously not nice for LArry the lamb - but as i said nowhere near as bad i imagined.

I thought it was done well. It's something I believe in - if you want to eat meat be prepared to acknowledge what happens to produce it. It will make people value their food more IMO.
Having had experience whilst travelling of people not prepared to even look at their meat before it was killed or be aghast at women plucking and killing chickens but licking their lips and tucking into a goat bbq and chicken curry it makes me mad. They wouldn't even gut fish.
No wonder we have become so detached from our food and agricultural industry...

Really enjoyed the first one of the series and to a lesser extent the second one because it was basically a repeat with small variations.

I'm afriad that the people shown probably are fairly representative of the consumers of mass produced ready meals and fast food.

I know people who won't buy meat if there's blood on it !!

errr....hello? :huh:

Me, I like it still bleeding on the plate

It's probably because the whole meat production chain is obfuscated and sanitised. To many people meat is what you get wrapped in cellophane in the supermarket and as mush is done as possible to divorce it from fluffy little lambs / cows / pigs / whatever. Personally I think if you aren't prepared to acknowledge where your Sunday roast comes from and the fact it once had a face you should probably not be eating it!

Mmmm, roast lamb is the shiznit.

Had to turn it off cause it was not very nice. However i am a vegetarian anyway so watching all the townie scared people makes me feel a little smug. I think you shouldn't eat meat if you wouldn't kill it yourself :rant:

lol i think i will enjoy this forum

I think you shouldn't eat meat if you wouldn't kill it yourself

As a non vegetarian I have to agree. A bit more thought about where all our food comes from, though meat in particular, may lead to better quality food all round and a better existance for farm animals. The loss of £1 burgers from fast food joints would be a small price to pay!

Who is Hugh Fearningly-Whittinstall ?
sounds like someone from the bonzo dog band with a name like that. I would like to met the guy, he might want to join my band. Is he a resident of sheffield, and what bus.. ?

I like HFW and enjoy his programmes. I recommend all vegetarians watch it and understand more about the food chain. And reality.. ;)