263:(also presented by Wallace), the documentary features a tour of Good Harvest, a secret food industry in Lincolnshire that had succeeded in making cheap and fresh meat that will cut down the cost of living. The meats were made from human tissues in the form of cakes. The donors were paid "two weeks' worth of energy bills" for about a pound of flesh they gave, more specifically, £250 for a single buttock, double is £400. The CEO of the company, Tamara Ennett, explained the procedure of collecting the flesh as "pain-subjective".
299:, written in 1729. Swift had suggested that poor Irish people should sell their children to the rich as food. The essay was also shown in the credits. Wallace wrote in Instagram a day after the broadcast: "Thank you for watching. I really enjoyed my first acting job!" Good Harvest was a fake factory. The director, Tom Kingsley explained, "Our intention wasn't to create a hoax – it was just that we felt the satire would be more powerful if it caught people by surprise."
281:. Trying out three different samples of meat, they agree that the best was the "premium", later revealed to be from children under age seven who had just played to relax their muscles, as Wallace explained: "Like livestock on the way to the abattoir, any stress could affect the quality of their meat."
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