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Food Justice Discussion at Georgetown Exposes Horrors of American Tomato Industry

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At an event hosted by Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland, joined Greg Asbed and Gerardo Reyes of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in discussing the economics, politics, and human rights campaign surrounding the tomato industry in America. Most people have no idea who picks the produce we eat every day or even where it comes from. It was this realization that led Estabrook to investigate where the tomatoes found in supermarkets in the middle of winter were grown. Estabrook, a food writer, was aware of the inferior quality of…
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