Cooking on the Breadline
The British food industry leaves thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — this is why many food workers are pressing back against low pay and exploitation.

Many of the workers at the Bakkavor factory cannot afford to purchase the food they make. (Photo by Gareth Fuller / PA Images / Getty Images)
‘I suppose it’s better the devil you know,’ says Michael,* a food production worker from Spalding, Lincolnshire. He has worked for the food manufacturing company Bakkavor, which has been providing fresh food products to supermarkets like Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s, and Waitrose for around two and a half decades. ‘We used to get double time or […]