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I don’t personally think much of these TV chefs; but they are good cooks and popular entertainers; they are also a main source of education to many people as to where food comes from and how it is prepared.

however it is spun eating meat involves taking the life of a living creature – and this is what these chefs were wanting to show.. where food really commes from…

Some (often those with extra time, money and sources of alternative nutrients) choose not to eat meat; others (such as myself) do but take every precaution possible to ensure our meat is sourced from suppliers with high animal welfare standards.

considering so much other telly is adverts for processed meat products which not only hide their animal origins ; and worse still programmes are broadcast as “entertainment” which glorify violence against our fellow humans (and the environment), I don’t think the chefs ever had a case to answer…

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TV watchdog clears slaughter scenes[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Press Association
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]TV chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver have escaped censure by watchdogs for slaughtering animals on their shows.
Viewers were left distressed when Oliver slit a lamb’s throat on his series Jamie’s Great Escape. And an episode of Ramsay’s programme The F Word provoked a similar response when it featured a slaughterman killing six turkeys the chef had reared in his garden.
Both chefs said they wanted to illustrate where the food on our table comes from. Media regulator Ofcom ruled both Channel 4 shows had treated the issue in a “responsible” way and had not breached TV guidelines.
Between them the shows attracted 57 complaints to Ofcom.
The offending episode of Jamie’s Great Escape was shown on November 9 and began half an hour before the watershed.
Oliver visited an Italian hill farmer who invited him to select a lamb and slaughter it for a family feast.
Ofcom said in its report: “It was clear from the programme that the presenter found it emotionally difficult to carry out his task but the lamb did not struggle or make any distressing noises. There was almost no blood shown and, arguably, it was hard to see what was happening at all.”
The report went on: “We consider that the programme treated the matter responsibly and informatively. There were no graphic distressing scenes and the programme sought to reflect a tradition that has been going on throughout the world, and in that particular part of Italy, for thousands of years.”
Ramsay’s turkey slaughter was broadcast on December 15. He did not kill the birds himself but invited a slaughterman into his garden to kill them with stun guns.
“In our view, the issue as a whole was treated in a responsible and professional way,” Ofcom said.
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