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Radio 4,04 Dec 2023,28 mins

Series Series 1: Planet Chicken

6. The Fast Food Trap

Fed with Chris van Tulleken

Available for over a year

Chris has learned how to make better chicken choices, and what those choices really mean. So why is he STILL eating CRAP? Like many of us, Chris 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 shouldn鈥檛 be eating, yet we do in absolutely vast amounts鈥� fast food? Chicken is at the very heart of this industry. As a cheap meat that doesn鈥檛 have a strong taste, can easily take on other flavours and doesn鈥檛 have any religious restrictions, it鈥檚 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 to prepare at home, somehow we don鈥檛 seem to mind turning a blind eye to the origins and nutritional content of our fast food favourites, especially if we鈥檙e hungry鈥� Chris discovers just how bad this food can be for both us and the planet, and why we鈥檙e powerless to resist it. Produced by Emily Knight and Lucy Taylor

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