At the end of July 2023, a video gained popularity on the Internet, which tells about the technology of preparing human meat, allegedly developed in the UK. We found out if it is true.

The video looks like an advertisement and tells of the company Good Harvest, which supposedly invented the technology for the production of meat from human cells. A man in the frame says that this is meat “made of people for people”, tastier and cheaper than what is now sold in stores. Users shared the roller often accompany his next description: “Judge of the reality show Masterchef about Greg's CulinaryG Wallace praises “amazing human meat” on one of the main British channels Channel 4. In the laboratory, human tissue is turned into larger pieces of meat that can be used to prepare steaks, hamburgers and sausages. ” Publications with such text, in particular, shared a publicist in Telegram Nikolai Starikov (33,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), political scientist Alexander Semchenko (95,000), channel "Lost past"(134,000) and many others. The plot also interested users of social networks ("VKontakte", "Classmates", Facebook) and continues to spread to this day.

On July 24, 2023, a new “Documentary Film” was released at the British Channel 4 from the host of the MasterChef show called Gregg Wallace: British Wonder-Samo. Description The film on the official website of the channel reads: “In the context of the rapid increase in prices for products, Gregg Wallace explores a controversial new meat product grown in the laboratory, which, according to its manufacturers, can ensure a solution to the cost of the cost of life.”

However, in fact, the genre of the show under consideration is the mockier (pseudo -documentary film), on IMDB it React To comedies. The script of the picture was created by the writer Matt Edmonds based on the satirical essay "A modest offer»Jonathan Swift, published back in 1729. At that time in Ireland Bushed Hunger, and Swift (prudently not signed by his own name) in his text proved that the solution of the problem would be eating babies. According to the plot of the film, Wallace visits the factory of the invented company Good Harvest - a pioneer in the field of human meat production technologies. This meat is designed to resolve issues of the food crisis and the high cost of life: it can be made from pieces of flesh of other people who can become peculiar donors for money. In one of the most shocking scenes, they say that the most delicious is - meat of children under seven years old, and Walles is offered to try "children's tartar".

According to the authors, this pseudo -documentary parody should increase the awareness of The crisis of the cost of life And about what people are ready to go to protect their families from poverty. However, how Writes The publication of Independent, the viewers of Channel 4 were very puzzled by the film by Wallace and Edmonds, many did not immediately figure out that they were dealing with the satire, and when they realized, they did not appreciate humor. So, culinary critic Jay Reiner wrotethat this is a "two -minute sketch for the sixth grade, stretched for 30 minutes." One Guardian editors Steve Rose, on the contrary, expressed admiration for the satire of Wallace.

In the Russian segment Telegram video hit On July 27, and at first was accompanied by reliable descriptions - it was mentioned that the Wallace video shown on Channel 4, satirical. But later on the same day appeared statementsthat on British television in this way they simply “introduce“ the norm of the near future ”through the satire, and the final type of plot I got it On July 28, in the post of the “Considation” channel (44,000 views) and in this embodiment it became viral.

It is curious that the video spreading in Telegram is not a fragment of the Channel 4 broadcast, it was mounted by Independent for an article on the reaction of the British to the Wallace film. The creators of the video even provided him with the titles, telling what exactly this pseudo -advertisement is. However, Russian -speaking users ignored the disclaim.

Thus, Gregg Wallace, who caused conflicting reviews, was accepted even in the UK, was accepted by some spectators and Internet users for a clean coin, and in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet the video was distributed outside the context and filed as a “shocking truth”.

Photo on the cover: Stop frame from the video