TV
Animal welfare campaigners have criticised plans to slaughter animals before a live audience for Kill It, Cook It, Eat It.
The second series of the BBC show will apparently include killing lambs, piglets and calves before asking audience members to eat the meat.
Campaigners VIVA!, the Vegetarians International Voice for Animals, supported the last series which shot secret footage in an abattoir.
But member Justin Kerswell said organising to have animals killed for television was different.
He commented: "BBC licence fee payers have to ask themselves if they are happy for their money to go towards paying for the slaughter of baby animals for entertainment.
"If the programme makers were really interested in showing the reality of slaughter they would film the conveyor belt of misery and pain inside just one of Britain's many industrial abattoirs."
Martin Davidson, a commissioner at the corporation, defended the show: "This is not an easy subject to face up to and this series aims to reconnect the British public with how the animals they eat reach their plate.
"It will show, straightforwardly and in detail, the entire process from farm to fork."
The second series of the BBC show will apparently include killing lambs, piglets and calves before asking audience members to eat the meat.
Campaigners VIVA!, the Vegetarians International Voice for Animals, supported the last series which shot secret footage in an abattoir.
But member Justin Kerswell said organising to have animals killed for television was different.
He commented: "BBC licence fee payers have to ask themselves if they are happy for their money to go towards paying for the slaughter of baby animals for entertainment.
"If the programme makers were really interested in showing the reality of slaughter they would film the conveyor belt of misery and pain inside just one of Britain's many industrial abattoirs."
Martin Davidson, a commissioner at the corporation, defended the show: "This is not an easy subject to face up to and this series aims to reconnect the British public with how the animals they eat reach their plate.
"It will show, straightforwardly and in detail, the entire process from farm to fork."
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