The Trouble with the Tomato: The Nation 7/27

The tomato is in trouble. The tomatoes in Big Macs and Taco Bell tacos and in supermarkets, especially in the winter, all come from the same place: South Florida.  The tomato fields there are “ground zero for modern-day slavery” – that’s what the Chief Assistant US Attorney says.  And there’s one other problem: those tomatoes taste like cardboard.
. . . continued at TheNation.com HERE.