Fed: The fast food trap

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Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Like many of us, Dr Chris van Tulleken is always trying to eat better food: healthy, high welfare, good for the environment. This kind of consumer demand is making the chicken industry better, in tiny increments. So why do so many of us give ourselves a pass when it comes to the food we know we should not be eating - fast food?

Chicken is at the very heart of this industry. As a cheap meat that does not have a strong taste, can easily take on other flavours and does not have any religious restrictions, it’s the ideal takeaway ingredient; from nuggets to chow mein to tikka masala.

And although we might be careful about chicken choices when buying it raw, somehow we don’t seem to mind turning a blind eye to the origins and nutritional content of our fast food favourites, especially if we’re hungry.

Chris discovers just how bad this food can be for both us and the planet, and why we are powerless to resist it.

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0:00.0	This was in a impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	One of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.4	I'm Carlo Gableer, and I'll be navigating a path through the disturbing inside story
0:21.5	of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC sounds.
0:35.0	There's a very wet chicken for you next few.
0:37.0	Oh God, is there?
0:38.0	Welcome to what's become a typical morning in the Van Talicant House.
0:42.0	I'm sitting next to a little wet pile of
0:44.3	digested prawn head. My wife Diana and I, we're sat in the garden.
0:48.1	Our daughters are still asleep upstairs, and we are watching our four increasingly chunky chickens forage in the flower beds and
0:56.4	they're totally mesmerizing.
0:58.4	Look at Nugget, I mean Nugget just relentlessly eats doesn't he? He's almost 30% bigger than the others.
1:06.0	We've got Nugget, Lila, Foxy and Fawkes. And I think they're living a pretty good life now.
1:12.0	Whenever we're at home, we let them out of their run. I think they're living a pretty good life now.
1:12.6	Whenever we're at home, we let them out of their run
1:15.2	and their free range in the garden.
1:17.2	The moment they're obsessed with our pond.
1:19.2	But Leila, who's also a Ross 308,
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