Gregg Wallace had viewers disgusted with his new documentary (Picture: Channel 4)
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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The TV chef was very excited to learn of a new meat harvesting process… (Picture: Channel 4)
It was said you could receive an estimated £250 for, erm, donating a buttock…
Perhaps the most horrifying moment of the doc was when a lady named Gillian, 67, appeared, with the retired receptionist flogging her thigh for £200 to help her pay two weeks of energy bills.
Lying on the surgery table to have her tissue ‘extracted’, she was even asked if she’d like to undergo two extractions for an extra payment!
The whole thing sounds insane, we know, and the internet was left ‘appalled’ as they watched Greg become overly enthusiastic about the ‘miracle meat’.
Taking to Twitter to express their horror, one person declared that ‘the world has gone mad’ if this is what people are actually considering.
Questioning if they had missed April Fools Day, one person wrote: ‘Have I been in a coma and woken up on April 1st? This can NOT be real’.
Another likened it to Black Mirror and asked if the doc was a ‘hoax’.
‘Is this a horror or a joke documentary?’, one viewer tweeted.
‘This is like Frankenstein come to life’, one person remarked.
‘This has got to be a spoof! Are times that bad we are turning to cannibalism’, asked another.
Another disgusted viewer penned: ‘Surely what I have just watched isn’t real! Taking extractions of tissue from both adults and CHILDREN and growing meat from it! Wtf!! They all looked petrified.. that place needs closing down!’
Thankfully, no, humans are not selling their cells to go into bacon – yet (Picture: Channel 4)
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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