Blood, Sweat and Takeaways

    L'année dernière, la BBC avait diffusé le même type de programme : six jeunes britanniques "fashion victimes" partaient travailler  en immersion dans des usines indiennes qui fabriquent des vêtements pour la clientèle occidentale.

    Cette fois-ci, ce sont six jeunes britanniques addictés aux "takeaways"

Pourquoi parler de ce programme ? Je pense que l'on devrait faire le même genre d'"expérience" pour les médicaments. Cela rendrait les gens plus responsables vis-à-vis de leur consommation de médicaments, en les confrontant à la réalité de l’expérimentation humaine.




Voici le pitch :

Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the workers in south east Asian food industries

A huge percentage of the cheap food we eat in the UK comes from South-East Asia, where it is harvested and processed before being placed neatly in the supermarkets where we don't even have to think about its journey

We consumers are pretty much aware by now of how spoiled we are for choice when it comes to buying or ordering food at reasonable prices.

This ambitious new four-part series, which debuts tonight, attempts to uncover the human cost of producing the food we take so much for granted and goes behind the scenes of the tuna, prawn, rice and chicken industries.

Six young British consumers - fussy eater Jess (19), fast-food fan Manos (20), fitness fanatic Olu (25), luxury food lover Lauren (21), keen cook Josh (20) and ethical shopper Stacey (20) - travel to south-east Asia to see for themselves what's involved.
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They have to catch, harvest and process food products that are eaten every day in the UK.

They also eat, sleep and live with the food workers in the poorest areas of Indonesia and Thailand and see how they fare living on the same wage - the average for such workers being around £3 a day.

In tonight's first episode the travellers enter Indonesia's tuna industry in Bitung on the island of Sulawesi.

In the UK, over a billion tins of tuna are consumed each year and Bitung's canneries supply many of our supermarkets and sandwich chains.

Living with the workers in their basic conditions, they endure the 90-degree heat of the tuna canneries and struggle with the harsh realities of life on a traditional tuna boat in the western Pacific.

The extreme conditions affect them all - as does the hand-to-mouth existence of those they are living with. But the big question is whether their unsavoury experiences will make them - and the programme's viewers - think twice about eating such cheap imported foods.