{"id":55406,"date":"2023-05-23T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/23\/we-give-our-blood-so-they-live-comfortably-sri-lankas-tea-pickers-say-they-go-hungry-and-live-in-squalor"},"modified":"2023-05-23T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:00:01","slug":"we-give-our-blood-so-they-live-comfortably-sri-lankas-tea-pickers-say-they-go-hungry-and-live-in-squalor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55406","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We give our blood so they live comfortably\u2019: Sri Lanka\u2019s tea pickers say they go hungry and live in squalor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children work<\/p>\n<p>Some of the world\u2019s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the plantations of its Sri Lankan suppliers, following a Guardian investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Two global trade-certification schemes, Fairtrade and the Rainforest Alliance, are also conducting inquiries after it was revealed that some workers on 10 certified estates could not afford to eat and were living in squalid conditions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/23\/we-give-our-blood-so-they-live-comfortably-sri-lankas-tea-pickers-say-they-go-hungry-and-live-in-squalor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children workSome of the world\u2019s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the planta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,666,847,311,59,1203,1353,958,79,61,674,992,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-commodities","category-employment","category-food","category-global-development","category-inequality","category-inequality-and-development","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-tea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55406\/revisions\/55407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}