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Why Green Tomatoes

An informative, interesting (and somewhat upsetting) interview with the author of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. An excerpt, from the author, Barry Estabrook: "Well, as one large Florida farmer said - he said I don't get paid a single cent for flavor. He said I get paid for weight. And then he went on to say, and I don't know of any supermarket shopper who tastes her tomatoes before she puts them in her shopping cart": http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=137371975

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