{"id":2564,"date":"2010-06-23T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2010-06-23T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:56:06","slug":"tv-kill-it-cook-it-eat-it-from-the-bbc-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/06\/23\/tv-kill-it-cook-it-eat-it-from-the-bbc-3\/","title":{"rendered":"TV: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It from the BBC 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;safe=off&#038;q=kill+it+cook+it+eat+it\">Kill It, Cook It, Eat It<\/a> is a very smart show from BBC 3. I&#8217;ve only watched the beef episode and it&#8217;s drawn out to fill an hour, but you can skip to the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-WTyNln3poE\">part three<\/a> for the moment of truth, minus the smell and what must be a near tangible moment of empathy. <\/p>\n<p>From that moment on it&#8217;s mostly a discussion of what makes grass-fed, sustainably produced meat delicious. Not necessary, not inevitable, not ordained; just delicious. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way they could run this on standard cable in the U.S. let alone broadcast. (Who would sponsor that hour? Carl&#8217;s Jr: you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/results?endeca=1&#038;return=endeca&#038;search_offset=0&#038;search_order_by=score&#038;x=0&#038;y=0&#038;search_phrase=carl%27s+jr\">all talk<\/a> and no action.) <\/p>\n<p>And the whole experience on Kill It\u2026 is already far removed from factory farming. That&#8217;s a sight few want to see. Not even t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Fast+Food+Nation+by+Eric+Schlosser\">hose who are paid<\/a> to do so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, roughly two-thirds of the workers at the beef plant in Greeley cannot speak English. Most of them are Mexican immigrants who live in places like the River Park Mobile Court, a collection of battered old trailers a quarter-mile down the road from the slaughterhouse\u2026A spokesman for ConAgra recently acknowledged that the turnover rate at the Greeley slaughterhouse is about 80 percent a year. That figure actually represents a decline from the early 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kill It, Cook It, Eat It is a very smart show from BBC 3. I&#8217;ve only watched the beef episode and it&#8217;s drawn out to fill an hour, but you can skip to the end of part three for the moment of truth, minus the smell and what must be a near tangible moment of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}