FEATURE / Why Florida Tomatoes Suck "TomatoLand"
from npr
- "It takes a lot to grow a tomato in the sand of South Florida: tons of
pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers... about eight times as many chemicals per acre on tomatoes
as California...
- from October to June, virtually all the field-grown tomatoes in
supermarkets come from Florida.
- They
are picked when they are green; the only reason they are red in the
stores is that they've been gassed with ethylene, which changes their
color...
- saw
tomatoes falling off a truck going 60 mph; when he stopped to examine
the tomatoes that hit the road, he says, they "looked smooth and
unblemished. Not one was smashed."
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