Kill it, Cook it, Eat it (TV)

I've only seen 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat It' once, but the show made a real impression on me. The whole point of the show is to show naive people how common foods actually end up in the supermarket or takeaway restaurants. The episode I saw was focused on the meat 'lamb.' There was a brief introduction into lamb as a British dish and the different dishes that it goes into before they got straight on with the whole process. The production basically termed a film studio into a food processing plant, with large windows into which a live studio audience and television cameras could see. I had kind of persuaded myself that they surely wouldn't be slaughtering animals live on ...  Read the complete review

I watched a couple of episodes of the last series of this program but have to say it horrified me. This program shows you the whole process of your dinner from farm to plate and does this infront of a live audience. The latest series was about baby animals being slaughtered for the food chain, you got to see the animal wandering around in a field with its mother, then it arriving at the slaughter house, being killed, the meat being prepared, cooked and finaly eaten by the live audience. On the one show they were killing baby lambs, they first attempted to electrically stun the animal with an electric shock to both sides of its head but ...  Read the complete review

I came across this programme earlier this week on BBC Three but I found myself unable to watch more than the odd snippet. It is one of those programmes which leaves me feeling very uneasy and a little unsure of it's usefulness. Over a few evenings a studio of invited guests participated in an 'event' of sorts. The guests were a varied group and included vegetarians, young people, older folk, sporting types and others. I think that the programme has been aired in the past with a similar format however, this time, it was all about 'how young is too young for an animal to be slaughtered' The participants took part in a discussion throughout the evening ...  Read the complete review