Kill It, Cook It, Eat It

sharkman

Looks like this may be interesting :

DOCUMENTARY: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
On: BBC 3
Date: Monday 5th March 2007
Time: 22:30 to 23:15 (45 minutes long)

Beef.
Series presented by Richard Johnson which follows the journey of farm animals from the pasture to the plate. In a specially constructed restaurant cum studio built around a working abattoir, guests watch as the animals are brought in for killing. The animals are then cooked and eaten in the studio by the audience. In the first programme, three beef cattle are brought in for slaughter from a local farm.
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Mossy Monk

seen it advertised. will check it out. i'm interested to know what happens when they for example, turn a cow into a steak

Steve01

Hmmm... Kill It, Cook It, Eat. Do we have to do it in that order? :cool:

duridian

Watching the later repeat on Beeb3 right now and definitely not in the mood for a steak. That's the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.

Lump

It was 1.39 am, of course you're not in the mood for a steak. Don't blame the programme.

John

Mossy Monk

forgot it

American Dad was funny though

r3nu4l

duridian wrote:

That's the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.

In fairness, you can be sure that the film was skillfully edited to make it more disturbing than the reality. That's what makes good television.

I'm going off TV documentaries more and more these days because it's all about how to shock the viewer. Don't present the facts as they are, twist them just a little, enough to provoke shock. It's easy to do with these documentaries...correct camera angles and close-ups, distorted lenses, washed out colours to convey the bleakness, amplify some sounds over others, low frequency humming in the background, manipulated lighting...bring on the low-level shock tactics.

It's not just documentaries, just watch "How clean is your house?" for the most blatant and obvious use of washed-out colour effects in the 'before' and 'after' segments

The next episodes of "Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" will be interesting to watch.

sharkman

Enjoyed that. But then I've seen animals slaughtered before , interesting that it did not put any of the audience off eating the freshly killed animals .


Off to the butchers with me !!!!

duridian

Lump wrote:

It was 1.39 am, of course you're not in the mood for a steak. Don't blame the programme.

John

I dunno, fair point I suppose but thinking of that programme I'm still not in the mood tbh - and I doubt that it can be just down to the time of day now Lump.

r3nu4l wrote:

In fairness, you can be sure that the film was skillfully edited to make it more disturbing than the reality.

I think that the speed at which the whole thing moved along took me by surprise, don't know whether they edited it slightly to do this.

Vegeta

Have to say I'm a hunter and while i didn't see the show I think everyone should regularly have to butcher their own meat to truly appreciate the food.

Way too many people have never eaten meat which didn't come in some form of plastic.

county

duridian wrote:

Watching the later repeat on Beeb3 right now and definitely not in the mood for a steak. That's the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.

you need to grow a set of balls my man;)

duridian

county wrote:

you need to grow a set of balls my man;)

Well since you have no qualms about cutting up flesh, how 'bout removing your own pair and sending them on to me, to see if they fortify my constitution.
[Edit: Apologies to all who are now cringing at that last statement, couldn't resist it.]