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From InTheseTimes.com, Michelle Chen, 5 Aug 2011. The hot summer has brought in a bumper crop of food activism from coast to coast. For the past few weeks, a group of Florida farm workers has embarked on a marketing coup that challenges the country’s food business giants by educating consumers about exploitation in the tomato … Continue reading
From NYTimes.com, Dwight Garner, 5 Jul 2011. TOMATOLAND How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit By Barry Estabrook 220 pages. Andrews McMeel. $19.99. Jonathan Lethem has seen the future of agribusiness, and that future is strange. In his novel “Girl in Landscape” (1998), he imagined humans inhabiting a new planet where meals grow inside “potatoes” … Continue reading
From WashingtonPost.com, Jane Black, 10 Jun 2011. Lucas Mariano Domingo came to the United States from Guatemala hoping to find a job that would pay him enough to send money home. But he was soon broke and homeless. And so it must have seemed like a lucky break when Cesar Navarrete, leader of a Florida … Continue reading
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