Summary
Do YOU know what you're eating? Are you sure?
Dr Chris van Tulleken is keen to make good food choices, and buy the best chicken possible for his dinner. High welfare, tasty, and good for the environment, ideally. But it's not as easy as that. How CAN he make good food choices if he has no idea what he's buying?
Chris explores what we actually know about the food we buy, and to what extent we can trust what's on a label.
He also uncovers the startling truth about two very different ways that we buy chicken - lifting the lid on why sometimes, even the most moral meat shoppers turn a blind eye...
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| 0:00.0 | He is Brian Cox. |
| 0:02.8 | Hello. |
| 0:03.3 | And he understands science. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Robin Ince and I don't understand it quite so much. |
| 0:09.0 | Could it tell us something about the nature of matter? |
| 0:11.3 | Nope. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay, good. |
| 0:14.2 | Together we'll be joined by a collection of experts and non-expert guests. |
| 0:18.6 | What's going on? |
| 0:19.8 | Don't worry. |
| 0:21.7 | Taking a look at some of the most wonderful things |
| 0:24.4 | in the scientific world. |
| 0:25.9 | Science with Funny Bits, The Infinite Monkey Cage on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.0 | We have 30 seconds of your time to ask you a question? It's for the BBC. |
| 0:39.0 | So this is the RSPCA level, these are red tractor, that's soil association. |
| 0:45.2 | Do you know what any of these labels mean, |
| 0:48.4 | or have you ever seen any of them? |
| 0:51.3 | Not really, no. Not that I can think of. I don't look out for them if I'm being honest. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to Fed with me Chris Van Tulliken, investigating why we eat the food we eat and what that means for our planet and ourselves. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm out on my local high street in East London and I'm trying to speak to busy shoppers |
| 1:16.6 | I've got a clipboard in my hand with a piece of paper on it pretty understandably |
| 1:20.1 | most of them are avoiding me. |
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