{"id":67556,"date":"2025-04-08T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=67556"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:05:22","slug":"slavery-on-uk-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/04\/slavery-on-uk-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery on UK Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly it\u2019s happening<\/p>\n<p>in the UK<\/p>\n<p>These fruit \u00a0farmers<\/p>\n<p>know how to moan<\/p>\n<p>but they pay<\/p>\n<p>really \u00a0awfully<\/p>\n<p>some of them they<\/p>\n<p>employ gangmasters<\/p>\n<p>and what they can say<\/p>\n<p>is to threaten the workers<\/p>\n<p>with sticks, \u00a0even some<\/p>\n<p>on terrible wages<\/p>\n<p>really a crumb<br \/>\nfruit picking\u2019s hard<\/p>\n<p>but at a really crappy rate<\/p>\n<p>it amounts to slavery<\/p>\n<p>which just isn\u2019t great<\/p>\n<p>Such \u00a0exploitation<\/p>\n<p>and bullying too<\/p>\n<p>the retailers get their share<br \/>\nOf course \u00a0that\u2019s true<\/p>\n<p>Farmers have got to be fair<\/p>\n<p>and for sure<\/p>\n<p>working hard all the day<\/p>\n<p>of course pickers \u00a0need more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Landowners \u00a0Alliance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Written in Premier Inn<\/p>\n<p>having a four day rest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly it\u2019s happening in the UK These fruit \u00a0farmers know how to moan but they pay really \u00a0awfully some of them they employ gangmasters and what they can say is to threaten the workers with sticks, \u00a0even some on terrible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/04\/slavery-on-uk-farms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,835,512,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-farming","category-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67560,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67556\/revisions\/67560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}