Chicken

Synopsis

When it comes to food, we are spoilt for choice. From top class restaurants to low cost supermarkets, we take it for granted that we can buy whatever food we want, whenever we want it. But would we feel the same if we knew the human cost of food production?

Six typical young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the millions of people in south east Asia's food production industries. They must catch, harvest and process food products that we eat every day, seeing behind the scenes of the tuna, prawns, rice and chicken industries for the very first time.

They eat, sleep and live with food workers in the poorest regions of Indonesia and Thailand, surviving on the same wages. The average wage for food workers here is around three pounds a day.

In this edition, the Brits face up to the challenges of south east Asia's poultry industry.

Credits

Executive Producer

Mark Rubens

Executive Producer

Tim Quicke

Broadcasts

1. Tue 9 Jun 2009
   21:00
   BBC Three
2. Wed 10 Jun 2009
   00:50
   BBC Three
3. Thu 11 Jun 2009
   04:15
   BBC Three
4. Thu 11 Jun 2009
   20:00
   BBC Three
5. Fri 12 Jun 2009
   02:20
   BBC Three
6. Sun 14 Jun 2009
   03:15
   BBC Three
7. Sun 14 Jun 2009
   22:45
   BBC Three
8. Mon 15 Jun 2009
   01:45
   BBC Three
9. Thu 16 Jul 2009
   01:55
   BBC Three
10. Mon 17 Aug 2009
    23:05
    BBC One (except Northern Ireland, Scotland)
11. Mon 17 Aug 2009
    23:35
    BBC One (Northern Ireland only)
12. Tue 18 Aug 2009
    23:15
    BBC One (Scotland only)