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Review: Mo Gilligan's Netflix film about fried chicken won't make you quit meat – but it will make you think

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There are very few documentaries that have changed the way I live. One of them was What the Health . The 2017 documentary, with its startling claims about the meat, dairy and food industry, inspired me to turn vegan almost overnight. It didn't last long, but it fundamentally changed the way I thought about what ended up on my plate. Watching Netflix's latest food documentary, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy , fronted by British comedian Mo Gilligan , I wasn't suddenly inspired to swear off fried chicken. But it left me with plenty of food for thought. The premise sounds more like a comedy sketch than a serious investigation. Gilligan commits to eating nothing but fried chicken for 28 days – 84 meals in total. Along the way, he sets out to answer a surprisingly broad question: how did fried chicken become one of the world's favourite foods , and what does our obsession with it really cost? The answer, it turns out, has very little to do with calories. Rather than focusing solely on

First report: Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy review – Mo Gilligan ruffles feathers in battle against ultra-processed foods — theguardian.com, 6d