Fed: Fine Print
Dr Chris van Tulleken asks if we can trust what's on the label when it comes to food.
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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