[WATCH]: What's Ireland Eating?

RTE One: 9:30pm - 10:30pm Sunday 8th May 2011 This programme is part of the Heart|Land season. In this documentary, Journalist and consumer champion Philip Boucher Hayes casts a cold eye on Irish eating and shopping habits. To get to the heart of what Ireland's eating in 2011, Hayes takes a look inside Ireland's shopping basket. Armed with information from a national nutrition survey and data from 3000 households' food shopping receipts, Boucher Hayes argues that we are damaging our health, our economy and our society by what we eat and the way we shop. He believes that a lot of the food we eat is far removed from its origins. It is highly processed and globally produced - and this is neither healthy nor economic good sense. He

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