Tallia Storm and Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid got into a heated debate about one restaurant's controversial dish, with the Scottish singer branding it "disgusting".
Earlier this month, trendy London eatery Westerns Laundry posted a picture on its Instagram account of a severed duck's head with vegetables stuffed inside its neck, which was then tied shut with a piece of string.
Alongside the image, the restaurant wrote: "We like to honour the lives of the animals we cook by using all their parts.
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"Too much waste is created in our industry by buying prized cuts and discarding the rest of the animal."
The photo prompted furious debate online, with some disgusted by the dish while others claimed it looked appetising and applauded Westerns Laundry's reasoning.
The £18 'stuffed duck neck' was the subject of discussion on today's episode of Good Morning Britain, where Storm appeared via video link alongside award-winning chef Neil Rankin.
She stated: "We have no respect for life anymore. Like, how can we be trying to justify a dead duck's neck.
"And the thing is you're not even celebrating the duck, you are shoving vegetables inside it.
"So, I think it's trying to trigger maybe a bit of maybe a PR stunt. I mean, it's literally the month of the vegans. We're literally in Veganuary.
"This is like the vegans' time to to shine and we are posting an image like that on social media trying to trigger a reaction."
She continued: "I think it's disgusting. I eat meat," but was interrupted by Reid.
The host interjected: "You do eat meat. So the argument is, actually, are you hiding from from the reality by saying 'let's not show the meat in its full glory before we eat it'."
Storm responded: "Yeah, but he's not eating a duck there. They're shoving the duck's neck with vegetables.
"You know what, I get it, if you're going to eat chicken you should be able to look the chicken in the eye, but in this case they're literally putting vegetables inside the duck and then tying the duck's neck with a bit of rope."
The singer added: "This isn't about culinary art, because there's literally not even a garnish on the plate. They've literally just put a duck on this flat white plate, which last time I checked wasn't very delightful."
Reid concluded the exchange by stating: "So you'd rather just have a nice piece of meat but prefer for it not to look anything like the original animal."
Storm was also criticised by chef Rankin, who suggested that it was hypocritical to eat meat but be offended by the image of the duck's neck.
He said: "If you find it difficult to eat something knowing what it is, then you shouldn't be eating it at all.
"I find it gross that people's disconnection from what they're eating is much more gross than the reality of it."
He continued: "It's this detachment from reality that allows processed food companies to thrive by turning animals into faceless objects. Chicken nuggets are offensive.
"Whole chicken looking like a chicken shouldn't offend a carnivore, a whole chicken looking like a pebble should.
"I have the utmost respect for people who choose not to eat meat, but very little for people who choose to only eat it under a veil of ignorance and detachment."
People were split in their reaction to the interview online, and were quick to share their thoughts on Twitter.
One person wrote: "You shouldn't be eating meat, if you cant accept what it was and that it died to allow you to eat it."
A second agreed: "I think if you can eat an animal then you shouldn’t get to choose which part offends you."
Another argued: "Lol seems like people don't like the connection that the flesh they're eating once belonged to an animal who was alive and happy before it was butchered to death. Out of sight is out of mind for most animal flesh eaters."
A fourth commented: "I buy my meat in the butchers so I don’t have to do that, who wants to look an animal in the face before you eat? Weird man."
