Fancy a tuna sandwich? You'll have to kill it first ; In a new TV show, a group of spoilt young Brits are horrified to find themselves gutting and pulling the heads off fish in a stinking Indonesian factory. So does it teach them the real price of the food they take for granted back home? Lucy Cavendish reports

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Jess Copper stands on the production line of a tuna factory in Indonesia. She is a pretty blonde with pale skin and dark eyes, although you'd never guess because she is wearing standard factory wear: white lab-style coat, hat and face mask.

She is not allowed to talk in case her saliva infects the tuna fish in front of her. She cannot leave the production line unless she asks and has one break a day. She works an eight-hour shift, which earns her Pounds 2 a day after rent is deducted from her wages.

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Fancy a tuna sandwich? You'll have to kill it first ; In a new TV show, a group of spoilt young Brits are horrified to find themselves gutting and pulling the heads off fish in a stinking Indonesian factory. So does it teach them the real price of the food they take for granted back home? Lucy Cavendish reports

Her job is to produce tuna loins by de-boning and de-skinning endless cooked tuna fish. She is not, it is fair to say, very good at this. She lags way behind, causing the entire production line to get into trouble. Told that she is to be moved from loining to beheading the fish, she looks as if she is about to cry.

Jess, a self-confessed fussy eater, is in Bitung, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, to take part in the BBC d...

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