7 Quotes by Barry Estabrook

Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.

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.

Yields have simply outpaced the plants’ abilities to fill the fruit with flavor and nutrients. What.

This subcontractor system enables a corporate farmer to avoid direct responsibility for day-to-day abuses that occur in his fields.

In industrial agriculture, a sow is nothing more than a piglet machine.

Green, cheap, and off-season continue to be the three mercantile legs upon which Florida’s tomato industry stands.

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.