Title:
Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit / Barry Estabrook.
ISBN:
9781449401092
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel Pub., [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
xvii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
On the tomato trail -- Roots -- A tomato grows in Florida -- Chemical warfare -- From the hands of a slave -- An unfair fight -- A penny per pound -- Matters of taste -- Building a better tomato -- Tomatoman -- Wild things.
Summary:
Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
Audience:
1280L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn687675277
Availability:
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