Blood Sweat and Takeaways

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

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Blood, Sweat and Takeaways Episode: Chicken

The group remains in Thailand, which is the world's largest exporter of chicken, sending 110,000 tons to the United Kingdom annually. For the first time, a factory will allow consumers inside to see the operations up close. The group joins + READ MORE

Blood, Sweat and Takeaways Episode: Rice

The group leaves Indonesia behind and heads to one of the poorest and most remote regions of Thailand to live and work in the rice growing communities. They take on their toughest challenge yet, as they must survive on only + READ MORE

Blood, Sweat and Takeaways Episode: Prawns

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 + READ MORE

Blood, Sweat and Takeaways Episode: Tuna

To begin with, the Brits tackle Indonesia's tuna industry in Bitung on the island of Sulawesi. In the UK, we consume over a billion tins of tuna a year and Bitung's canneries supply to many British supermarkets and sandwich chains. + READ MORE

Blood, Sweat and Takeaways: About the Show

Most of us don't know where our food comes from, how it's made and at what cost. We don't know about the appalling conditions that many workers endure to produce it cheaply, the long hours and low rates of pay + READ MORE