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.
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November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
The funny thing is …
The funny thing is how we now “manufacture” animals. I’d laugh if somewhere in the universe a human like animal is being packed into a infested and being manufactured for slaughter to feed a glutteral alien. People are turning into mindless robotic husks with not a care in the world!
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
I do not care I …
I do not care I know he and she bullied me. She is a horrible nasty cow. She is cruel.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
No doubt it’s …
No doubt it’s important. But comments like that just make you look like a fanatic. If you want people to take any notice you should say what she’s done. You’re not her ex-husband are you?
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
It is important. …
It is important. She is an evil bully. She is just being fed this stuff. She is a bully. They have researchers to do all the work. She bullied me.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
Whether she is a …
Whether she is a bully or not, isn’t really reliant here. Why is she a bully? The film is pretty good informative journalism. Which is good for many families who are being sold bad meat for profit: at least after watching this they can make an informed choice. Who has she bullied?
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
Dirty Meat is …
Dirty Meat is disgusting!
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
The journalist on …
The journalist on this show is a bully. Why does she keep getting given work she is a nasty cow. It just shows scum rise to the top. She works for murdoch who is just as evil as any supermarket.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
This is just the …
This is just the tip of an iceberg that cover our entire planet!
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
Did you type that …
Did you type that with your eyes closed?
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
put the government …
put the government in control, Oh thats a good idea Sigh!
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
NO WONDER WE …
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 THERE SHOULD BE A GOVERNMENT FOOD AGENCY THAT MAKES FOOD FOR THEIR COUNTRIES THEM SELFS.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
Disturbing …
Disturbing information.