These days, in the age of the ‘deep fake’ and Chat GPT, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real. But surely, if one turns on the TV and sees presenter Gregg Wallace strolling through a factory wearing a hairnet then we trust we are about to learn, albeit amid much gurning and foghorn bonhomie, how something is made.
This, at least, is the lure of Channel 4’s astonishing British Meat Miracle documentary. Wallace drives his Range Rover to the factory of a meat ‘disruptor’ called Good Harvest who, he informs us, are selling prime cuts of human-harvested meat for 99p.
