Fed: The Ethical Consumer's Dilemma

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We’ve heard about the potential problems around chicken welfare. But how does that square with their impact on the environment?

Dr Chris van Tulleken finds out what it takes to produce the most eco-friendly chicken meat possible. And makes a devastating discovery. Welfare concerns, and environmental credentials, often pull in OPPOSITE directions. Does he want to eat the happiest birds, or the ones kindest to the planet?

Halfway through his poultry quest, Chris remains massively conflicted: he loves chicken, but some of what he’s discovered makes him question how much he eats it. Will he still be able to look at it the same way as he goes deeper down the rabbit hole? And more importantly, should he keep serving it up to the family?

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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. It's week four in the world's smallest broiler farm.
0:38.0	It says it's going to take an hour to assemble this.
0:41.0	Come on.
0:42.0	We can do it in 20 minutes I'm Chris van Telek and I'm raising
0:47.1	chickens for meat four of them well they were five one came to a sad ending last
0:52.3	week when she went lame and had to be put down.
0:54.5	Left, side panel outer left. But it's a big day for the four remaining chicks. It's time for them to move from
1:00.6	my study where they've been wreaking havoc and pooing on
1:03.0	everything into a proper little coop in the garden which arrived flat-packed a few days ago.
1:08.0	There's a horizontal bit with holes in it there. Some assembly required which goes like that. I've got two of the
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