Farming issues typically receive little television
coverage, but there has been a wealth of TV programmes on food and
agricultural issues during the first two weeks of 2008.
Channel 4 kicked off the New Year with a series of shows which it
billed as ‘The Big Food Fight’.
Hugh's Chicken Run, presented by chef Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall, claimed to explore "the horrors of
intensive chicken farming."
Chef Jamie Oliver also fronted a programme called
Jamies' Fowl Dinners which aimed to highlight the differences
between living conditions for 'standard' broiler and battery
chickens, 'enriched cages', barn, free range and organic birds.
Meanwhile, the controversial
Kill, it Cook it, Eat it returned for a new four-show run on
BBC3. This aim of this programme was to uncover the facts about
how meat is prepared in the UK - this time focusing on the
slaughter of young animals such as milk-fed lambs, veal and
suckling pigs. The programme asked how these animals are raised,
where they come from, how they're killed and gutted and how young
is too young when it comes to eating baby animals?
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