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Farming Today: 26/06/23 Fruit pickers speak out, Scotland's new food strategy, the price of bacon

26/06/23 Fruit pickers speak out, Scotland's new food strategy, the price of bacon

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 26/06/23 Fruit pickers speak out, Scotland's new food strategy, the price of bacon

Seasonal migrant workers who pick our veg speak out about 'shocking' working conditions.

The seasonal migrant workers who pick our fruit and veg speak out about working conditions they describe as ‘beyond shocking’.

“We weren’t viewed as humans”, that was what a House of Lords Committee has heard from a South African woman who’d 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’s 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’s 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’re 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’s really bringing home the bacon from bacon?   

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