Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit Reviews
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and gr
