The terrible truth about your tin of Italian tomatoes

Court documents reveal that fruit from two food giants on UK supermarket shelves was picked by workers in southern Italy under 'conditions of absolute exploitation'Two of Italy's biggest food companies have been implicated in labour abuses of migrant workers picking tomatoes bought by thousands of British and European consumers every week, according to court documents.Italian prosecutor Paola Guglielmi has named food giants Mutti and Conserve Italia as benefiting from "conditions of absolute exploitation" in the country's hugely lucrative tomato industry, as part of an investigation into the death of a seasonal labourer. Continue reading...