21 Oct 2025
Abused for Our Food
Summary
Date Reported: 21 Oct 2025
Location: United Kingdom
Other
Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Recruitment agencies ) - RecruiterAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Indonesia , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Documented migrants )Issues
Recruitment Fees , Wage Theft , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Freedom of Expression , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Excessive production targets , Surveillance , Intimidation , Debt Bondage , Forced Labour & Modern Slavery , Human TraffickingResponse
Response sought: No
Action taken: In 2022, the worker was granted a positive ‘reasonable grounds’ decision by the UK Government’s national referral mechanism saying he is likely a victim of modern slavery. He is bringing a legal challenge against the home office for trafficking, debt bondage and labour abuse.
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 21 Oct 2025
Location: United Kingdom
Other
Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Recruitment agencies ) - RecruiterAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Indonesia , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Documented migrants )Issues
Dismissal , Recruitment Fees , Debt BondageResponse
Response sought: No
Action taken: The GLAA opened an investigation into the fees paid.
Source type: News outlet
... When journalist Georgie Styles is sent unpublished videos of farm workers in Britain being ‘treated like animals’, she begins to investigate the dark side of our food system.
She uncovers numerous referrals of labour exploitation, and hears allegations of workers living in moldy caravans, being trafficked, verbally abused and forced to urinate in bottles.
Her year-long investigation goes from farm workers to our favourite supermarkets.
With gripping first-person testimony, unheard recordings and new documents, this File on Four documentary makes you think about the food in front of you in a new way...