Author: John R. BrookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : System analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Winter Fresh Tomato Industry
Author: John R. BrookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : System analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Tomatoland
Author: Barry EstabrookPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449408419
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters category Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point? Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation's top restaurants. Throughout Tomatoland, Estabrook presents a who's who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents' medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years. Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an expose of today's agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
Sustainable Production of Fresh-market Tomatoes with Organic Mulches
Author: Aref A. Abdul-BakiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mulching
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Greenhouse Tomatoes Change the Dynamics of the North American Fresh Tomato Industry
Author: Roberta L. CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenhouse plants
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Examines the greenhouse tomatoes industry and its effects on the fresh tomatoes industry in North America.
Epic Tomatoes
Author: Craig LeHoullierPublisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1612122094
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier provides everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes, from planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to various pests and tomato diseases, explaining how best to avoid them. With beautiful photographs and intriguing tomato profiles throughout, Epic Tomatoes celebrates one of the most versatile and delicious crops in your garden.
Vegetable Situation
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vegetable trade
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Vegetable Situation
Author: Vegetable Outlook & Situation
Author: Situation and Outlook Report
Author: H.R. 2795, Safeguard Investigations of Perishable Agricultural Products
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description