The Food Law Society hosted a talk by Barry Estabrook on September 22 in which he discussed his recently published book, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. As noted by Rachel Greenberger's coverage of the talk, Estabrook "immediately honed in on justice," arguing that the Florida winter tomato is the poster child for many problems of large scale farming. As revealed in his writing, workers in the industry are routinely sprayed with pesticides, paid below minimum wages, and are often victims of slavery and indentured servitude.
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