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Author Estabrook, Barry, author.

Title Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit / Barry Estabrook. [OverDrive\Libby electronic resource]

Publication Info. Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-206) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Tomatoes -- Biotechnology.
Tomatoes.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Agricultural ecology.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Title Tomato land
Other Form: Print version: Estabrook, Barry. Tomatoland. Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, c2011 9781449401092 (DLC) 2010937751 (OCoLC)687675277
ISBN 9781449408411 (electronic bk.)
1449408419 (electronic bk.)
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