Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides.Based on a James Beard award-winning article from a leading voice on the politics of agribusiness, Tomatoland combine
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| Title | : | Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (208 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1449401090 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-06-07 |
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Based on a James Beard award-winning article from a leading voice on the politics of agribusiness, Tomatoland combines history, legend, passion for taste, and investigative reporting on modern agribusiness and environmental issues into a revealing, controversial look at the tomato, the fruit we love so much that we eat $4 billion-worth annually.2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters categorySupermarket 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 $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant bre
Editorial : "In this eye-opening exposé, Vermont journalist Estabrook traces the sad, tasteless life of the mass-produced tomato, from its chemical-saturated beginnings in south Florida to far-flung supermarkets. Expanding on his 2010 James Beard Award-winning article in Gourmet magazine, Estabrook first looks at the tomato's ancestors in Peru, grown naturally in coastal deserts and Andean foothills, with fruit the size of large peas. Crossbreeding produced bigger, juicier varieties, and by the late 19th century, Florida had muscled in on the U.S. market, later benefiting from the embargo on Cuban tomatoes; the Sunshine State now produces one-third of the fresh tomatoes in this country. To combat sandy soil devoid of nutrients, and weather that breeds at least 27 insect species and 29 diseases that prey on the plants, Florida growers bombard tomato plants with a dizzying cocktail of herbicides and pesticides, then gas the "mature greens" (fruit plucked so early from the vines that they boun
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PS. Complications with her coworkers and frightening murders in her town start to alter her relationship with Dante and force her to examine her goals and ultimate desires. I'm thrilled to see the 'emerging voices' series on Amazon. I didn't realize until after I really looked at it closely that the spotlight shifted to a new main character, but th
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