Kenneth Watt: It’s time to support the people who actually produce the food in our shops

When we do our weekly shopping – whether that’s buying tomatoes grown in Italy, prawns shelled in Indonesia or bananas picked in Ecuador – it is easy to forget the human faces behind these purchases. We don’t see seafood factory worker, Melati, working gruelling hours with few comfort breaks, shelling prawns in freezing temperatures. Or Isidro who works on a banana plantation in Ecuador and is often exposed to dangerous pesticides which damage his health. We don’t think of Aversa from Mali, picking tomatoes for 12 hours a day in Campania earning less than €2 an hour.