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1975: Is Modern Food Full Of Rubbish? | What Are You Eating? | BBC Archive
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48:27Now PlayingCan you tell the difference between a tin of 'Stewed Steak with Gravy' and a tin of 'Stewed Steak with Gravy, Pie Filling'? Do you know how much water you buy with every frozen chicken or tin of ham? Could you tell the difference between a lump of vegetable protein and a lump of beefsteak? Exactly one hundred years ago, Disraeli introduced the first effective Food and Drugs Act to protect us from adulterated food. Now that Act has grown into a massive tome of rules and regulations and in this programme Christopher Brasher wends his way through the complexities of 1970s food, trying to find out what we are really eating.
Clip taken from What are you eating? Originally broadcast on 2 September 1975.
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