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Dr Chris van Tulleken is on a mission to find out what we\\u2019re eating, why, and who or what might be influencing our decisions. And he\\u2019s starting his quest to uncover food truths with the most eaten meat in the world, and one of the most numerous animals on our planet: chicken He\\u2019s recently been forced to confront a serious gap in his food knowledge - what happens before it gets to our plates - and has decided this, the world\\u2019s most popular meat, is an ideal starting point. Chris\\u2019 initial investigations reveal the vast scale of modern chicken consumption; and how a once revered jungle fowl was manipulated to become a modern food success story, a fast-growing heavy-breasted beast to feed the masses. Now, he's torn: is this a triumph of human ingenuity \\u2013 or the creation of a monster?

Produced by Lucy Taylor and Emily Knight.

Archive audio: 'Chicken of Tomorrow' (1948) from the Prelinger Archive. \\n'Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas' (1975) from the BBC.