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Barry Estabrook
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“According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.”
― Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
― Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.”
― Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
― Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
“An acre of Florida tomatoes gets hit with five times as much fungicide and six times as much pesticide as an acre of California tomatoes.”
― Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
― Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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