The real price of cheap poultry
By Andrew Wasley Supermarket chicken is making us sick, as the recent scandal over the spread of the potentially-deadly campylobacter bug revealed. But cheap poultry is…
Cleaning up the pineapple chain
The tropical fruit has long been associated with appalling labour practices and environmental damage linked to intensively farmed plantations. But a sustained international campaign is trying…
Revealed: suffering of Europe’s ‘tomato slaves’
Across Italy an invisible army of migrant workers harvests tomatoes destined for our dinner plates. Paid poverty wages and living in squalor, medical charities have described…
Zac Goldsmith: the hidden cost of our food
Extract from The Ecologist Guide to Food, published February 10th 2014 The Ecologist has been setting the environmental agenda for over 40 years – bringing the critical…
Shocking must-see food films | No. 2: Blood harvest
The Ecologist Film Unit travelled to Calabria in Southern Italy in 2012 to reveal how the annual orange harvest makes use of African migrants paid poverty…
Migrant farmworkers ‘systematically damaged’ to produce food for others
Dora Clouttick caught up with Seth Holmes, author of the acclaimed Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies book which follows the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrant farmworkers…
What links your Chinese takeaway and the sex trade?
The answer: migrant labour, as the investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai found out whilst working undercover to research her new book, Invisible, and documentary, Sex My British…
Restaurant workers: the forgotten victims of exploitation
Next time you visit your favourite restaurant, or sit down to enjoy a take away, spare a thought for those toiling in the kitchens. Particularly if…
Are your prawns linked to people trafficking?
Western consumers could be eating fish arriving as a result of modern day slavery in south east Asia, a shocking new report and film claim. Thailand’s…
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