What is miracle meat?

GREGG Wallace returned to our screens with a new show on Channel 4.

The MasterChef star explored the future of food and sampled a new product called ‘miracle meat'.

What is miracle meat and is it real?

The Channel 4 show was actually a mockumentary created by writer Matt Edmonds.

It sees Gregg Wallace introduced to a fake company called Good Harvest.

The Good Harvest factory in Lincolnshire produces genetically modified meat that is harvested by human stem cells.

The product is made by extracting meat from living people for money, which the firm insisted will help solve the cost of living crisis.

This will offer people a new source of income and allow for low-cost meat to hit supermarket shelves, The Mirror reported.

Donors are told they could get as much as £495 per donation and could use the money to put towards their bills.

Manager Mick Ross explained that steaks, burgers, and sausages can be harvested from ‘thin slices of human tissue’ in a ‘nutrient rix mich’.

The attraction is that human flesh is much cheaper than animal meat, as it costs as low as 99p per steak.

Good Harvest’s chief executive later revealed their premium range comes from the flesh of children under the age of six - with a promotional video which named the womb as ‘nature’s oven’.

What did Gregg Wallace say about miracle meat?

Viewers were left horrified to see Gregg himself tucking into one of the "human steaks".

However, there was no warning during the broadcast to reassure viewers that it was fictional.

It wasn't until the end of the show, that Gregg delivered a serious message.

He told viewers: "These children are a great example to the rest of us. The Trussell Trust tells us that ending the cost of living crisis requires a benefits system that works for all, and secure incomes so people can afford essentials.

"So it's no surprise that eating children seems a more likely path for our country. It's a modest proposal, but it might be the only attempt we've seen to take the cost of living crisis seriously.

"I'm Gregg Wallace. Bon Appetit." the programme ended with a message that said: "For more satire, go to Brass Eye on Channel 4."

Gregg later responded to the backlash online and said: "Thank you for watching, I really enjoyed my first ever acting job."

Posting a picture of himself on the programme, he added: “Satire. See Jonathan Swift ‘A Modest Proposal’.”

The show was based on A Modest Proposal, a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. 

It proposed that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to the rich.