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Duration: 10:49 minutes Upload Time: 2007-05-29 12:43:23 User: melah65 :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think. Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets investigates whether the food on supermarket shelves is really as good as it looks, whether prices are as good as they seem and what happens behind the scenes in the production of supermarket food. This year Britain's shoppers are expected to spend around £70billion on food. 56% of this total expenditure will take place in supermarkets. These films ask how supermarkets manage to push prices down and profits up. Are farmers and growers being pressured to produce food in a manner that leads to it being less nutritious than in the past? And what of the conditions that livestock is reared in today? The first of the two programme features secret filming which uncovers the horrific conditions inside a chicken broiler house preparing chickens for a company which supplies all the major supermarkets. One study carried out by a professor from Cambridge University revealed that 82% of chickens bought in supermarkets had hockburns -- a tell-tale sign of poor animal welfare caused by sitting in litter. Jane Moore shows how to examine chickens for hockburns. The programme also examines why chickens nowadays have more fat and less protein and why it is vitally important to read the ingredients lists on healthy option meals. Also, top chef Raymond Blanc puts some supermarket 'ready meals' to the taste test. Programme two meets the organic potato farmer who feeds much of his crop to his cows because, he says, the supermarkets deem his produce to be insufficiently cosmetically pleasing. The film also hears from a toxicologist about the levels of pesticide residues in supermarket fresh produce; reveals how dairy cattle are now factory farmed and why packaged fruit and vegetables from your local supermarket may be more expensive that you think -- and not as good for you. VISIT: http://www.soulcravings.net for more secrets! |
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| e97zsa ::: Favorites 2007-06-23 20:52:41 Disturbing information. __________________________________________________ | |
| MoinManMM ::: Favorites 2007-07-30 19:05:34 NO WONDER WE AMERICANS ARE OnLY gETTING FATTER WE TRY TO LOOSE THE WEIGHT BY EATING CHICKEN AND NOW THEY PUT THIS CRAP IN IT ITS LOOKS LIKE HALF THE WEIGHT OF THE WHOLE CHICKEN GOD DAMN THERE SHOULD BE A GOVERNMENT FOOD AGENCY THAT MAKES FOOD FOR THEIR COUNTRIES THEM SELFS. __________________________________________________ | |
| chameleon000 ::: Favorites 2007-08-11 02:18:42 put the government in control, Oh thats a good idea Sigh! __________________________________________________ | |
| uchuufuku ::: Favorites 2007-09-07 09:33:38 Did you type that with your eyes closed? __________________________________________________ | |
| rjardim ::: Favorites 2007-11-03 22:45:27 This is just the tip of an iceberg that cover our entire planet! __________________________________________________ | |
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