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Pasture To Plate

 
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Follow the production process of some everyday foods

However hungry you are, you wouldn't be able to get much nutritional value out of a field of corn without a spot of processing to make something edible. Find out how food makes it from pasture to your plate.

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The tool is a Flash file, but if you don't have Flash on your computer, click here to get it.

If you'd prefer, you can read the information instead presented as a basic webpage: Pasture to plate - just the facts.

Content last updated: 19/04/2005

 
 
 

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