{"id":134607,"date":"2025-12-13T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=134607"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:21:53","slug":"rotten-at-the-core-the-silent-exploitation-of-migrant-fruit-veg-pickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/rotten-at-the-core-the-silent-exploitation-of-migrant-fruit-veg-pickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotten at the core: the silent exploitation of migrant fruit &#038; veg pickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<p>Millions of migrant workers face exploitation in Europe\u2019s fields, harvesting the fruit and vegetables that many of us purchase. This was the stark finding of a disturbing investigation published last year by the charity, Oxfam. Their researchers found that in many European countries, workers were being paid less than the minimum wage, and that incidents \u201cof abuse, including sexual abuse, intimidation, and violence in response to strikes, were commonplace.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk\/news\/the-agtivist\/rotten-at-the-core-the-silent-exploitation-of-migrant-fruit-veg-pickers\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Wicked Leeks<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of migrant workers face exploitation in Europe\u2019s fields, harvesting the fruit and vegetables that many of us purchase. This was the stark finding of a disturbing investigation published last &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":134611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,56,5,1738],"tags":[610,1377,497,777],"class_list":["post-134607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-continental-europe","category-food-farming","category-news","category-work","tag-exploitation","tag-migrant-workers","tag-migrants-rights","tag-workers-rights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}