The world was shocked by the ending of a new film in which method actors 'became cows'.

The film - called Meat Your Maker - is sponsored by the Vegan Education Group (VEG).

The actors were so successful that they ended up being slaughtered in an abbatoir and sold as supermarket mince.

A spokesperson explained:

Stanislavski and Marlon Brando would have been proud of our adherence to a new acting technique called extreme method.

After spending months being fattened up in a field, our actors were herded onto a lorry and sent to an abbatoir to be turned into mince.

You've never seen acting like it!

We think our film will stimulate a great deal of debate about what it really feels like to be a cow.