Tomatoland Quotes

“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.”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.”
― Barry Estabrook, 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.”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“Yields have simply outpaced the plants’ abilities to fill the fruit with flavor and nutrients. What”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“Green, cheap, and off-season continue to be the three mercantile legs upon which Florida’s tomato industry stands.”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“popular education’s goal is to empower groups of people who have been marginalized socially and politically. The”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“This subcontractor system enables a corporate farmer to avoid direct responsibility for day-to-day abuses that occur in his fields.”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“Insipid,” “blah,” “tough,” “like eating cardboard,” and “plastic junk” are terms that people apply to store-bought tomatoes today. Craig Claiborne, of the Times, has called the tomatoes commonly on sale “tasteless, hideous, and repulsive.”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“Plant breeding is a matter of seeing what’s good,” he said. “But you can’t make any decisions based on one season. You have to grow a variety a lot of times in a lot of environments to see if it’s really good.”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“A Matter of Taste: Who Killed the Flavor in America’s Supermarket Tomatoes?” by Craig Canine (Eating Well, January/February 1991).”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

“Tomatoes,” by Thomas Whiteside (the New Yorker, January 24, 1977),”
― Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit