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Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit / Barry Estabrook.

Tomato land (other title)
Estabrook, Barry. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1449401090
  • ISBN: 9781449401092
  • Physical Description: xvii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2011]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-206) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : 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 -- Epilogue : Wild things
Target Audience Note:
1280L Lexile
Subject:
Agricultural ecology.
Agricultural industries.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Florida > Economic conditions.
Tomatoes.
Tomatoes > Biotechnology.

Available copies

  • 12 of 12 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)

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