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Inside the salad 'mega-farm' supplying the UK's appetite for lettuce

The Barway hostel houses up to 600 workers – including Poles, Bulgarians, Lithuanians and others – in dormitory style accommodation or, when at capacity, in a few nearby caravans. Each room contains six beds, a freezer and a fridge (workers cook in a separate dedicated kitchen, or eat in an onsite canteen). Couples can apply for a space in a dedicated two-person room. There’s also a shop, an internet café, a social centre – complete with a well stocked bar – as well as football and basketball pitches, a tennis court and outdoor barbecue area.

The salad village

It isn't a hotel – the building is closer to a university halls of residence with long corridors, artificial lighting, fire notices and communal bathrooms. Stepping outside, the industrial nature of the site becomes more apparent: almost immediately adjacent to the main accommodation block are the ‘spillover’ caravans, further washrooms and other factory buildings that form part of the giant processing plant that churns out salad and vegetables seven days a week. The staff at the hostel are genuinely enthusiastic about the facility. Will Goosen, a manager at the Barway hostel, says he believes the company offers foreign workers a good package: they are offered regular work, decent pay, good living conditions and social facilities which far exceed that provided by many other companies. If workers have a problem, be it personal, practical, or relating to work, the hostel staff are on-duty 24 hours a day, he says. Additionally, there’s a dedicated phone service for workers to make any complaints in their own language to an independent third party which operates the scheme.

Source: The Ecologist

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I live with my boyfriend and his brother, and though my boyfriend and I shop and eat together, his brother will occasionally (as in, at least once a week) eat stuff that we buy. I have a real problem with this simply because I am disabled and my income is severely limited. My boyfriend recommended I buy the Fridge Locker, so I did, and it works! My peanut butter has lasted almost a month, and all my goodies are mine again. No more worries. This thing is sturdy and someone could break into it, but it would take a lot of effort. I got one for the pantry and I am getting another two, one for the fridge, and one for my medications (for when I travel). One piece of advice-pick your lock numbers at random. The combination is only 3 numbers, so if you pick your birthday or something easy like that, people might be able to guess it and steal your stash....

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Fridge Locker – The Personal Food Security System

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If you’re worried about someone taking your sandwich from the office fridge, there’s always the Anti-Theft Lunch Bag . Take it a step further and lets say you have family members or a roommate at home that just happens to eat everything in the fridge, including your favorite food that you made a special trip to the grocery store to buy in the morning. When do not touch signs don’t work, there’s always the fridge locker.

Known as a personal food security system, this device is meant to keep that last slice of pizza or the cold beer safe from “Refrig-A Raiders”. Acting as a physical deterrent, it’s a simple device that consists of a metal cage (7.5-inches wide by 7.5-inches tall by 11-inches deep) that is secured with a combination lock. The food security system is small enough to fit in a fridge, freezer or pantry but do realize that once this device is installed in the home, other members of the home may not react kindly.

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