article_snippet.sent: Salads in British supermarkets are being grown by workers treated like ‘slaves’ who live in filthy conditions, an investigation has found.
article_snippet.sent: Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain say Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain are denied basic hygiene facilities while working and are forced to use bushes near where the vegetables are being grown as toilets.
article_snippet.sent: Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain are not provided with soap or water to wash Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain hands, while some live in filthy shacks made of wood and plastic sheeting near the fields in Southern Spain.
article_snippet.sent: Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain claim Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain are treated like slaves by agencies who hire Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain to produce the salads and vegetables that end up on supermarket shelves in Britain, the investigation by Channel 4 News found.
article_snippet.sent: Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain also say Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain are made to work around dangerous pesticides – causing some to fall ill – and are routinely left unpaid for hours
article_snippet.sent: Migrant workers producing vegetables exported to Britain have worked.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday British politicians demanded an urgent investigation, saying the evidence was ‘appalling’ and appeared to show ‘effectively slave labour producing food in 2015’.
article_snippet.sent: The revelations centre on workers in Murcia and Almeria from where millions of pounds worth of vegetables are exported to the UK every year.
article_snippet.sent: One vegetable picker working for a firm in Almeria supplying courgettes to the UK told of the filthy conditions in which One vegetable picker working for a firm in Almeria supplying courgettes to the UK was made to work.
article_snippet.sent: For these courgettes to reach England, there are workers who have suffered a lot.
article_snippet.sent: One vegetable picker working for a firm in Almeria supplying courgettes to the UK said workers at One vegetable picker working for a firm in Almeria supplying courgettes to the UK company, based in Almeria, were also sprayed with pesticides but were too afraid to complain because workers at his company, based in Almeria names would be put on a blacklist known as ‘the list of rotten sardines’.
article_snippet.sent: The investigation also uncovered concerns about workers for Agroherni, a Murcia firm which sells £22million worth of salad, herbs and vegetables a year to Britain’s major supermarkets including Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.
article_snippet.sent: It sounds like effectively slave labour producing food in 2015 which is utterly unacceptable.
article_snippet.sent: Tory Neil Parish, a colleague on the Environment and Rural Affairs Select Committee, said: ‘There is always a price to pay for cheap imported food; whether it is poor quality, low animal welfare standards or, in this case, the appalling treatment of workers.
article_snippet.sent: More than 40 employment agencies supply labour to farm growers in the Murcia region.
highlights_snippet.sent: Vegetables sold in UK are grown by workers 'denied basic hygiene facilities' in Almeria, Spain .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: An article of 15 April reported on a Channel 4 investigation into the treatment of salad and vegetable workers in Southern Spain who live and work in filthy conditions without basic toilet and hand washing facilities, forcing the treatment of salad and vegetable workers in Southern Spain who live and work in filthy conditions without basic toilet and hand washing facilities to urinate near produce.