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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, c2011.Description: xvii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781449401092
  • 1449401090
Other title:
  • Tomato land
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635.642 3
LOC classification:
  • SB349 .E78 2011
Online resources:
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.
Item type: Book List(s) this item appears in: Island Grown Schools | High-Interest Non-Fiction
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 635.642/ESTABROOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Donated by W. Dean Eastman 39844500016023

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-206) and index.

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.

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.

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