Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

Written by Philip Hodge on April 20th, 2012

• Book Rating: 4/5

A good listening experience about a seemingly simple object that, in fact, isn't so simple after all. We tend not to think about the agricultural origins of the countless fruits and veggies that are available 24/7 at any time of the year. We can buy bananas in Boston in December. We can get tomatoes in Baltimore in the middle of a snowstorm. But how? And equally important -if not more so- who picks those tomatoes?