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Blood, Sweat and Takeaways

Mark Rubens

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Jo Bishop

Blood, Sweat and Takeaways: Episode 2: Prawn

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Prawn

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Episode 2: Prawn

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Six Brits go to live and work alongside the workers in Indonesia's prawn industry.

Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the workers in Indonesia's prawn industry. They are surprised to find themselves on a farm, not by the sea.

When it comes to food, we are spoilt for choice. From top class restaurants to low cost supermarkets, we take it for granted that we can buy whatever food we want, whenever we want it. But would we feel the same if we knew the human cost of food production?

Six typical young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the millions of people in south east Asia's food production industries. They must catch, harvest and process food products that we eat every day, seeing behind the scenes of the tuna, prawns, rice and chicken industries for the very first time. 

They eat, sleep and live with food workers in the poorest regions of Indonesia and Thailand, surviving on the same wages. The average wage for food workers here is around three pounds a day.

The Brits arrive in Kalimantan, Indonesia to live and work alongside the workers in the prawn industry. Their home is a shack in the jungle with no beds, no TV and no running water and dinner is what you can catch. Instead of fishing for prawns in the ocean, the Brits are surprised to find themselves waist deep in mud working on a prawn farm. 

For these six young consumers, biting into a prawn mayo sandwich will never be the same again, but the group is given a glimmer of hope with the arrival of a British farmer to join their team.

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Six British food consumers live and work with south east Asian food industry workers

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

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