The Blood and Sweat behind your prawn sandwich

Last night’s excellent Blood Sweat and Takeaways saw Brit youngsters working as labourers in the tiger prawn ponds in the jungles of Indonesia and peeling prawns in an export prawn factory.  This programme should be a compulsory feature of the national curriculum – skewering in an hour the yawning financial, social and attitudinal gap [...]

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Blood, Sweat and Takeaways and tantrums

Yesterday’s BBC3 documentary Blood, Sweat and Takeaways plonked six young Brits onto the production line of a tuna processing factory in Indonesia, with predictable consequences.  The Brits can’t cope with the living conditions, the heat, the factory environment, the tasks they are allocated – they vomit, they faint, they cry, they throw each other [...]

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