Cocaine Inc. (Bonus) - The Artist
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Mee, a former cocaine trafficker who worked with the Cali Cartel, sits down to discuss how he built an illicit empire.
David Collins and executive producer Will Roe meet Stephen in his artist’s studio.
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| 0:00.0 | We all want to enjoy food that tastes great and is sauce responsibly. |
| 0:05.0 | But it's not always easy to know where your favourite foods come from. |
| 0:08.0 | McDonald's works with more than 23,000 British and Irish farmers to source quality ingredients. |
| 0:14.0 | Mike Allwood is a dairy farmer from Cheshire, who supplies organic milk to McDonald's in the UK for its teas, coffees and |
| 0:22.0 | porridge through ALA. |
| 0:23.7 | We're involved in a network which has been set up by AARLA to look at the possibilities for |
| 0:30.0 | farming regeneratively. |
| 0:32.0 | One of the things we're doing here is moving our cattle, giving them a fresh piece of grass |
| 0:37.4 | every day to help regenerate the soil. |
| 0:40.3 | We're very lucky that we've had a long-term relationship with McDonald's. |
| 0:45.3 | And I think often people don't realise how seriously McDonald's take the relationships with farmers. |
| 0:51.3 | Change a little, change a lot. Find out more about McDonald's plan for change on the McDonald with farmers. Change a little, change a lot. |
| 0:58.0 | Find out more about McDonald's plan for change on the McDonald's website. |
| 1:03.5 | My dreams, my retirement, my life. |
| 1:09.1 | My Map is a range of ready-made funds managed by BlackRock, making it easier for you to invest for the future you want, whatever that looks |
| 1:11.5 | like. Our funds use ETFs and index funds to keep costs low and are actively managed, |
| 1:17.2 | meaning the funds stay within their investment risk profiles. Plus, it really doesn't take much |
| 1:22.1 | to begin investing. Just get started and let the professionals do the rest. My future, |
| 1:29.4 | my way, my map. |
| 1:30.7 | Ready when you are. |
| 1:36.2 | Capital at risk, the value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. |
| 1:39.1 | Investors may not get back the amount originally invested. |
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