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The Food Chain

Jancis Robinson continues her series exploring the relationship between ourselves and what we eat.

Spoilt for Choice? This programme investigates how the supermarkets balance the running of lucrative businesses with providingthe nation with good quality, healthy food. Do shoppers take enough responsibility for what they eat - or have they relinquished it to the food retailers?

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StatusEnded
Original NameThe Food Chain
First Air DateSeptember 5, 1996
Last Air DateOctober 10, 1996
Seasons1
Episodes6
Episode Runtime 0min
Language
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
Production Companies
NetworksBBC Two
S01E06

Barley and shitake mushrooms

Barley from berwickshire is used to make crackers, cereal and nutritional drinks and to feed a hungry lifeboat crew, while, in lancashire, farmer john's shitake mushroom business is booming.

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