
26/06/23 Fruit pickers speak out, Scotland's new food strategy, the price of bacon
The seasonal migrant workers who pick our fruit and veg speak out about working conditions they describe as 鈥榖eyond shocking鈥.
鈥淲e weren鈥檛 viewed as humans鈥, that was what a House of Lords Committee has heard from a South African woman who鈥檇 been employed as a seasonal worker on three British farms last summer. Her name is Sybil Msezane and she was speaking to a Horticulture Sector Committee in the Lords that鈥檚 looking into how seasonal agricultural workers are treated.
Scotland has a new Strategy for Food and Drink. It was launched at the Royal Highland Show last week by Humza Yousaf, Scotland鈥檚 First Minister and aims to increase turnover in the Scottish food and drink sector by 25% over the next five years.
All this week we鈥檙e going to be deconstructing the bacon butty, not in a Michelin-starred restaurant fancy kind of way, but with a farming head on. What are the margins for the UK farmers who grow pigs for bacon? Where is the bacon in our butty likely to come from? Who鈥檚 really bringing home the bacon from bacon?
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
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