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Aug. 26, 2011
The Unsavory Story Of Industrially-Grown Tomatoes
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| In his book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Barry Estabrook writes of perfectly round, orangish supermarket tomatoes--grown largely in Florida--and how the migrants who pick them are sometimes bound into modern slavery by farm bosses. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by Barry Estabrook
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