In Britain today, food is more plentiful, more nutritious, more varied, and much more affordable than ever in our history. Yet still there is widespread concern about the risks and ethics of eating, with panics about everything from foie gras to turkey twizzlers. Do modern obsessions about obesity, industrial-farming, children on diets, GM crops, fat and salt levels mean we are so worried about what we eat that we forget food can be about enjoyment as well as sustenance?
PRODUCED BY: Jason Smith with Justine Brian and Jane Sandeman
INTRODUCED BY: Jason Smith, Academy of Ideas
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