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201895 minPGdocumentary

Before the Plate

201895 minPGdocumentary

A single plate of food is traced back to its ingredients, highlighting modern farming practices and the challenges faced by the agricultural industry.

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Sagi Kahane-Rapport

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A single plate of food is traced back to its ingredients, highlighting modern farming practices and the challenges faced by the agricultural industry.

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Sagi Kahane-Rapportdirector

Dylan Sherwriter

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Before the Plate follows each ingredient from a single plate of food backwards to the farms they came from, revealing modern farming practices and the challenges the industry faces as it does so.

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