“This chilling documentary spares no one’s feelings when it comes to culpability for the deaths of 178 people: a father shows the tattoo in honour of his dead son “murdered by greed and corruption”; and a bereaved mother writes to politicians every Christmas to remind them of the empty space at her table. Supermarkets pushing farmers to do more for less, diseased remains that turned herbivores into cannibals, government backing agriculture and schools feeding the resultant meat to children — truly, this is the stuff of nightmares.” – Helen Stewart, The Times
“The programme’s admirable lucidity and careful tracking of the timelines was illuminated and humanised by several accounts from parents bereaved by this man-made disease and man-aggravated crisis. It remained lucid and careful as it turned to the future, and started evaluating the evidence that suggests we are due a second wave of cases.” – Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
Directed by Will Lorimer; Raw / BBC