Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit / Barry Estabrook.
Material type: TextPublication details: Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, c2011Description: xvii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781449401092; 1449401090Other title: Tomato landSubject(s): Tomatoes -- Biotechnology | Tomatoes | Agriculture -- Environmental aspects | Agricultural ecologyDDC classification: 635.642 LOC classification: SB349 | .E78 2011Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionCurrent library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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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