It's just the best comedy writing and acting in an Australian series since, I dunno, Frontline maybe? Everyone seems so comfortable in their roles, and you have to imagine they take pleasure in making it. Who writes it? I must look it up.
Anyway, last night's return episode featured a pig which they decided to "rescue" from what they presumed was a fatal return to the local butcher. And oddly, there is a story in The Guardian today about real farmers who have had even larger scale sudden conversions:
A farmer was recently on the road to the abattoir when he changed direction and drove his trailer full of lambs 200 miles to an animal sanctuary instead. Sivalingam Vasanthakumar, 60, from Devon, now plans to grow vegetables.Why veganism though? Isn't vegetarianism enough?
Vasanthakumar is not the only farmer to perform this kind of reversal. In 2017, Jay Wilde, of Bradley Nook farm in Derbyshire, took his cattle to a sanctuary and decided to become a vegan farmer (the film telling this story, 73 Cows, has been nominated for a Bafta). In the US, the Illinois-based charity Free From Harm has gathered tales of many farmers who have had epiphanies and switched to veganism.
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