acids, 1
advertising copy, 1
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1
Ag-Mart Produce, Inc., 1, 2, 3, 4
methyl bromide use, 1
pesticides use, 1
Schell settlements, 1
settlement, 1
agrichemicals. See also fertilizers, chemical; fungicides; herbicides; insecticide; pesticide
quantities used in Florida vs. California, 1
reproductive disorders and use of, 1
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, 1
AIDs education program, 1
Ailsa Craig, 1
Aim, 1
Alachua, Florida, 1
alligator health, 1
Anti-Slavery International, 1
Aramark, 1
Arrow, 1
artisanal economics, 1
Arysta LifeScience, 1
Asbed, Greg, 1
Atacama Desert, 1
Audubon Society, 1
avermectin (insecticide), 1, 2
Aztec, 1
Bacillus thuringiensis, 1
Bad Actors, 1. See also specific Bad Actors
banana, 1
Bastianich, Lidia, 1
bathroom breaks, 1
Bayer CropScience, 1
Beard, James, 1
Beard on Food (Beard), 1
Beddard, Tom, 1
Bejo Seeds, Inc., 1
Brown and, 1
CIW and, 1
Crist to, 1
Birds, death of, 1
birth defects, 1, 2, 3, See also specific cases
Lake Apopka, 1
pesticide exposure and, 1
Block, John R., 1
Blocker, Jerry, 1
Blocker, Kimberlee, 1
Bloody Butcher, 1
Blund, E. S., 1
Boca Raton, 1
Bon Appétit Management Co., 1
“Boot the Bell,” 1
bottleneck effect, 1
bottom mix, 1
Brandywine, xi, 1
Klee on, 1
Britain, tomatoes in, 1
Benitez and, 1
Burger King and, 1
CIW and, 1
on food safety, 1
on housing conditions, 1
on labor laws, 1
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions and, 1
on tomato industry, 1
UglyRipe and, 1
buffer zone, 1
bugs, 1
Burger King, 1
Brown and, 1
in Campaign for Fair Food, 1
surfxholic36 and, 1
Bush, George W., 1
calcium content, x
California, 1. See also canning tomatoes; University of California Davis; University of California Los Angeles
agrichemical quantities used in, 1
harvest in, 1
pesticide exposure cases in, 1
Caloosahatchee River, 1
Campaign for Fair Food, 1, 2, 3, See also specific companies involved
Lady Moon Farms and, 1
SAFE and, 1
Carlos Herrera-Candelario v. Ag-Mart Produce, Inc., 1
Castaneda, Nolasco, 1
Castro, Fidel, 1
Category I Acute Toxin, 1
Catholic church of Immokalee, 1
Center for Media and Democracy, 1
El Chacal, 1
Chasing the Sun Training Acknowledgement, 1
Chefs Collaborative, 1
chemical defense system, 1
Cherokee Purple, 1
Cherry Berry, 1
on disease, 1
Chidsey, John, 1
child labor, xvi, 1
Children’s Medical Services of Lee County, 1
Chile, 1
Chiles, Lawton, 1
“chilling injury,” 1
Chipotle Mexican Grill, 1
chlorination, 1
Cisneros, Yolanda, 1
citric, 1
CIW. See Coalition of Immokalee Workers
C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, 1, 2, 3
collection, 1
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), 1, 2, 3, 4. See also Campaign for Fair Food
Benitez and, 1
boxing match, 1
Brown and, 1
early days, 1
fast food companies confrontation, 1
Flores and, 1
Florida governors and, 1
members, 1
surfxaholic36 and, 1
Whole Foods Market and, 1
Cobra, 1
Coles, Robert, 1
Colfer, Joan, 1
Collier County Health Department, 1, 2
Columbian Exchange, 1
community, pesticide exposure in, 1
Community Development Credit Union, 1
Compass Group, 1
conservation challenge, 1
consumer satisfaction, 1
convict lease programs, 1
cookbook, first appearance of tomato in, 1
Corkscrew Swamp, 1
Cortés, Hernán, 1
“coyote,” 1
crew
bosses, 1
regular members of, 1
crime
index, 1
prevention practices, 1
“crimson” gene, 1
to Benitez, 1
to Reyes, 1
crop
development, 1
management, 1
rotation, 1
cross-pollination, 1
Cuban tomatoes, 1
cubeta, 1
Cuello, Abel, 1
culture, tomato, 1
Dade County, 1
Daiker, Davis, 1
Davilos, Ricardo, 1
Davis, Shelly, 1
deformities. See birth defects
degreened. See ethylene gas
Department of Agriculture, U.S., x, 1
pesticide residue findings by, xiii, 1
Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, 1
Department of Health and Human Services, U.S., 1
deportation risks, 1
developmental and reproductive toxins, 1
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1
DiGrigoli, Paula, 1
DiMare Fresh, 1
disease, 1. See also specific diseases
fungal, xiii, 1
resistance, 1
domestic tomato. See Solanum lycopersicum
Domingo, Lucas Mariano, 1, 2, 3
Dominguez, Juan, 1
drip irrigation, 1
DuPont, 1
Durbin, Richard, 1
East Coast Growers and Packers, 1, 2
Eckerton Hill Farm, 1
wages, 1
Economos, Jeannie, 1
Ecuador, 1
Edgar, 1
Edison, Glendell, 1
education
AIDs, program, 1
popular, 1
El Calvario Fuente de Vida, 1
employee, 1
Enriques, Hilda, 1
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S., 1, 2, 3, See also Worker Protection Standard
pesticide approval, 1
environmental threats, 1
Environmental Working Group, 1
ESCA, 1
ethylene gas, x, 1, 1. See also ripening, artificial
commercial applications, 1
gas chambers, 1
Europe, 1
Everglades, Florida, 1
Everglades Community Association, 1
Everglades Farmworker Village, 1
day care centers, 1
evolution, of tomato, 1
exports, 1
“extended shelf life,” 1
extract, tomato, 1
Fair Food Code of Conduct, 1
fair trade, 1
fallow fields, 1
farmworker, 1. See also workers, tomato
average household income for, 1
benefits/overtime for, 1
justice, 1
legalized discrimination against, 1
life expectancy, 1
Farmworker Association of Florida, 1, 2
air tests, 1
Farmworker Community Support Foundation, 1
Farmworker Justice Fund, 1
fast food companies. See also Burger King; Campaign for Fair Food; Taco Bell
CIW confrontation with, 1
Federal Marketing Order 966, 1
fertilizers, chemical, 1
for maximum production, 1
use in dollars, 1
Firestorm, 1
flavor, 1
analysis, 1
genes that affect, 1
temperature and, 1
flooding fields, 1
Florida. See also specific places and organization
agrichemicals quantities in, 1
environmental threats, 1
governors and CIW, 1
growing conditions, 1
pesticide exposure cases in, 1
slavery history in, 1
soil, 1
Florida 7907, 1
Florida 8059, 1
Florida 8153, 1. See also Tasti-Lee
Florida Bay, Florida, 1
Florida Board of Education, 1
Florida Consumer Action Network, 1
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 1, 2, 3
pesticide complaints before, 1
pesticide-abuse investigation and enforcement program, 1
Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, 1, 2
“Florida rounds,” 1
Florida tomato
business model, 1
ethylene gassing of, 1
exports, 1
growing conditions, 1
harvest, 1
history, 1
imported foods vs., 1
Mexican tomato vs., 1
percentage of, in United States, 1
planting, 1
pruning, 1
ripening, 1
sanitation efforts, 1
staking, 1
winter fields, 1
Florida Tomato Committee, 1, 2
authority of, 1
donations, 1
UglyRipe and, 1
Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, 1, 2, 3, 4
Campaign for Fair Food and, 1
Florida tomato industry, 1
boom years, 1
Brown on, 1
business model, 1
financial difficulties, 1
Food and Drug Administration, U.S.
pesticide residue findings by, 1
salmonella outbreak and, xiv, 1
food safety, 1
food-poisoning outbreaks, 1
Fort Myers News-Press, 1
France, 1
Freire, Paulo, 1
Fridkin, Jeffrey, 1
Friends of the Earth, 1
Frost, Charlie, 1
Fuchs, Leonhart, 1
fumigation, 1. See also methyl bromide
buffer zone, 1
drift problem, 1
fungicides, 1
quantity of use, 1
furaneol, 1
Gabriel, Julia, 1
Galapagos Islands, 1
Garcia, Carlos Chavez, 1
gardeners, 1
“gas chromatograph,” 1
Genetic Disorders and the Fetus: Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment (Milunsky), 1
genetic variations, 1
genetically modified foods, 1, 2
Gerard, John, 1
Germany, 1
Germino, Laura, 1
Gidget, 1
GoalTender, 1
Gomez, Sebastian, 1
Gonzales, Guadalupe, III, 1
graders, 1
green tomatoes, 1
greenhouse tomatoes, xiv, 1
Greenmarket program, 1
Greenmarket Union Square, 1
grey leaf spot, 1
Grimaldi, Victor, 1
Grossman Roth, 1
Grover, Shannon, 1
Grover, Steven F., 1
growing conditions, 1
Guadalupe Center, 1
Hague Convention, 1
“harboring illegal aliens,” 1
hardness, 1
Harvest of Shame, 1
Hatch, Orrin, 1
Head Start, 1
health
alligator, 1
benefits of wild tomatoes, 1
care workers reporting suspected pesticide poisoning, 1
pesticides and, 1
Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer (Stark), 1
Hendrix, Joel, 1
Herball (Gerard), 1
quantity of use, in pounds, 1
deposition of, 1
Herrera, Gladys, 1
Herrera-Candelario, Carlos, 1, 2, 3
Hispanic migrants, xiv, 1. See also specific people and cases
Hoffman, Peter, 1
Homestead, Florida, 1
Horticultural Sciences Department, 1
hot mix, 1
housing conditions, 1
Brown on, 1
housing standards, 1
human trafficking, 1. See also slavery, modern-day; Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
violation of laws, 1
Hurricane Andrew, 1
Hurricane Jeanne, 1
hydroponic technology, 1, 2, 3
hygiene, 1
illustrations, tomato, 1
Immokalee, Florida, 1, 2, 3, 1. See also Coalition of Immokalee Workers; specific cases in Immokalee
Catholic church of, 1
crime index, 1
crime-prevention practices in, 1
education, 1
housing, 1
investigation into deformities in, 1
per capita income, 1
rent in, 1
Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Code of Conduct, 1
imported foods, 1
inbreeding, 1
indigenous diet, 1
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (Kohman), 1
insect species, 1
organic, 1
quantity of use, in pounds, 1
inspectors, 1
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 1
Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida, 1
internal temperature, 1
Intertek, 1
intimidation, 1
iodide, 1
iodomethane, 1
irrigation, 1
isoamyle acetate, 1
Italy, 1
Ixcoy, Andres, 1
John, Frank, 1
Jonas, Steve, 1
Kegley, Susan, 1
Kennedy, Edward, 1
Kennedy, John F., 1
Kirk, Steven, 1
Klee, Harry, 1
Klonsky, Karen, 1
Kohman, E. F., 1
L. chilense, 1
LaBelle, Florida, 1
labor
child, xvi, 1
protection, 1
women and, 1
Labor Department, U.S., 1
Brown on, 1
Lady Moon Farms, 1
Lake Apopka, 1
water quality, 1
Lake Placid, 1
landowners’ responsibilities, 1
last harvest, 1
Lee, Linda, 1
life expectancy, 1
limestone gravel, 1
Lipman, Max, 1
Livingston, Alexander W., 1, 2
Livingston and the Tomato (Livingston), 1
local, 1
Long, Donald, 1
Yaffa’s deposition of, 1
lunch breaks, 1
lycopene, 1
Maceda, Sostenes, 1
mala aurea, 1
malic, 1
Manatee County, Florida, 1
Marmande, 1
Martinez, Antonio, 1
Martinez, Jose, 1
Matthioli, Pietro Andrea, 1
process, 1
Mayan, 1
McElroy, Terence, 1
Medel, Jose Hilario, 1
medicine, use of tomatoes in, 1
men, single, 1
Mennonite Church, 1
Mesoamerican farmers, 1
methamidophos, 1
methyl bromide, 1, 1. See also fumigation
Ag-Mart Produce, Inc. use of, 1
application, 1
methyl iodide, 1
Mexican tomatoes, 1
Florida tomato vs., 1
production techniques, 1
Mexico City, Mexico, 1
Miami Herald, 1
Migrant Farmworker Justice Project of Florida Legal Services, 1
migrant worker. See also Hispanic migrants
AIDs education program for, 1
life expectancy of, 1
Miguel A. Flores Harvesting, Inc., 1
Milunsky, Aubrey, 1
mineral oil, 1
laws, 1
modern agribusiness, 1
modern agricultural practices, 1
Modern-Day Slavery Museum, 1, 2
moisture, 1
Mojave Desert, 1
molecular biology, 1
monoculture fields, 1
Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1
Moskowitz, Howard, 1
muck farms, 1
Naranja, Florida, 1
Nation, Allan, 1
National Canners Association, 1
National Council of Churches, 1
National Labor Relations Act, 1
National Science Foundation, 1
Navarrete, Cesar, 1
Navarrete, Geovanni, 1
Navarrete, Jesus, 1
Navarrete, Jose, 1
Navarrete family, case against, 1, 2
Campaign for Fair Food and, 1
indictment against, 1
SAFE auditor and, 1
nematodes, 1
hybrids resistant to, 1
nonchemical alternatives to fight, 1
New Deal, 1
New Yorker, 1
New York’s Union Square farmers’ market, 1
niacin content, 1
nonchemical alternatives, 1. See also organic
North American Free Trade Agreement, 1
nut grass, 1
nutrients, soil, 1
organic methods and, 1
nutrition, 1
obedience, 1
Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pollan), 1
organic, xii. See also Lady Moon Farms
insecticide, 1
soil nutrients and, 1
organic tomato, 1
profit, 1
organization, 1
oxamyl, 1
Oxfam America, 1
ozone layer, 1
Campaign for Fair Food and, 1
Pacito, Don, 1
Packer magazine, 1
packing, 1
UglyRipe, 1
Palm Beach Post, 1
The Pantry, 1
Papa Joe’s, 1
Paragon, 1
Pasternack, Dave, 1
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1
Pena, Ramon, 1
per acre yields, 1
Perez, Antonio, 1
wild tomatoes in, 1
Pesticide Action Network of North America, 1, 2
Bad Actors and, 1
iodide and, 1
pesticide exposure, 1, 2, 3, See also specific cases
bird deaths by, 1
birth defects and, 1
California vs. Florida cases, 1
in community, 1
Schell and, 1
pesticide regulation
enforcement, 1
violations of, 1
pesticides, 1
abuse investigation and enforcement program, 1
Ag-Mart Produce, Inc. use of, 1
application laws, 1
approval, 1
complaints before Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 1
on conventionally grown tomatoes, 1
handling instructions, 1
health effects, 1
poisoning, 1
toxicity of, xvi
training programs, 1
use in dollars, 1
petroleum-based products, 1
Phytophthora, 1
piece basis, 1
pin-hookers, 1
pistoleros, 1
planting, 1
Pollan, Michael, 1
polyethylene plastic mulch, 1
pome dei Moro, 1
pommes d’amour, 1
popular education, 1
pre-Columbian Americans, 1
pregnancy, 1. See also birth defects
Presbyterian Church, 1
preserving quality, 1
Procacci Brothers Sales Corporation, 1, 2, 3, See also Gargiulo, Inc.; UglyRipe
base, 1
production, xii–xiii
in Mexico, 1
railroad and, 1
Prowl, 1
pruning, 1
pulling beds, 1
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 1
Raghu, André, 1
railroad, 1
raised beds, 1
Ramos, Jose Luis, 1
Ramos, Juan, 1
Reading, Pennsylvania, 1
Red Pear, 1
Redlands Christian Migrant Association, 1, 2, 3, 4
regulations, 1
REI. See restricted-entry intervals
Reigart, J. Routt, 1
rent, 1
reproductive disorders, 1
toxins and, 1
restricted-entry intervals (REI), 1
Revolutionary War, 1
Crist to, 1
Rick, C. M., Jr., 1
Rick, Charlie, 1
RICO. See Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
ripeness, 1
ripening, artificial, 1, 2, 3, See also ethylene gas
Roblero, Ariosto, 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1
roots, 1
Rudo, Kenneth, 1
Ruiz, Raul Humberto, 1
Rural Neighborhoods, 1
SAFE. See Socially Accountable Farm Employers
salmonella, 1
accusations for outbreak of, xiv, 1
salsa origins, 1
Sanchez, Pascuala, 1
sand, tomato field, 1
concentrations of moisture in, 1
Sanibel Island, Florida, 1
sanitation efforts, 1
Santana, 1
Santorum, Rick, 1
Schleifer, Rebecca, 1
Scott, John Warner, 1
Scythe, 1
seasonal, 1
seed catalog copywriters, 1
seepage irrigation, 1
self-pollination, 1
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, 1
Sequence, Pierre Robin, 1
Shafey, Omar, 1
shower program, 1
Campaign for Fair Food and, 1
slavery, history of, 1
slavery, modern-day, xv–xvi, 1, 1. See also specific cases
Domingo case, 1
as inherent to economic system, 1
in Lake Placid, 1
Martinez, A., case, 1
Miguel A. Flores Harvesting, Inc. and, 1
threats against victims’ families, 1
Socially Accountable Farm Employers (SAFE), 1
Sodexo, 1
sodium content, 1
soil. See also sand, tomato field
Florida, 1
fumigation, 1
nutrients, 1
organic methods and nutrients in, 1
sand, 1
solarization, 1
Solanum arcanum, 1
Solanum cerasiforme, 1
Solanum habrochaites, 1
Solanum juglandifolium, 1
Solanum lycopersicum, xi, 1, 2
Solanum ochranthum, 1
Solanum pennielli, 1
Solanum peruvianum, 1
Solanum pimpinellifolium, 1, 2, 3
search for, 1
Solanum sitiens, 1
Sonoran Desert, 1
sorghum, 1
Sota, Francesca, 1
soup kitchen, 1
South America, 1. See also specific places
Southern Poverty Law Center, 1
Southwest Florida Research & Education Center, 1
Specter, Arlen, 1
spotted wilt virus, 1
St. John’s River Water Management District, 1
staking, 1
standards of food, xii
Stark, Tim (Tomatoman), 1
Stauber, John, 1
Stauffacher, Fritz, 1
Steele, John E., 1
stem canker, 1
Stockman Grass Farmer, 1
strawberry, 1
structure, tomato, 1
Stuart, Michael, 1
Student/Farmworker Alliance, 1
Styers, Greg, 1
sudangrass, 1
sugarcane agriculture, 1
sugars, 1
Sun ’N Lakes, 1
sunlight, 1
supermarket tomatoes, 1
pesticide residue and, xiii, 1
prices, 1
surfxholic36, 1
sustainability, violations of, 1
“sweatshops in the fields,” 112
T-1 visas, 1
Taco Bell, 1
Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, 1
taste panel, 1
Tasti-Lee, 1
test-market, 1
Tembladera, 1
temperature
taste and, 1
tomatoes’ internal, 1
teratogenic, 1
tetra-amelia syndrome, 1
cases, 1
theatro, 1
thiamin content, 1
Thomas Produce Company, 1
tobacco mosaic, 1
Together for Agricultural Safety, 1
tomatillos silvestres, 1
Tomato Committee. See Florida Tomato Committee
Tomato Growers Exchange. See Florida Tomato Growers Exchange
“tomato tar,” 102, 1
Tommy Toe, 1
Touchdown, 1
Tower Cabins, 1
trafficking. See human trafficking
exemption, 1
fight for, 1
at packing plant, 1
“ultrafirm tomato,” 144
United States. See also specific places
first tomatoes in, 1
percentage of Florida tomatoes in, x
Universidad de Chile, 1
University of California Davis, xii, 1, 2, 3, See also C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center
University of California Los Angeles, 1
University of Chicago, 1
University of Florida, 1. See also Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition
University of Florida’s Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, 1
University of Notre Dame, 1
University of South Florida’s College of Education, 1
Vasquez, Jose, 1
vegetable popularity, x
Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida 2010–2011, 1, 2
verticillium wilt, 1
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, 1, 2, 3
vitamin C content, 1
volatiles, 1
wild tomatoes and, 1
wage, xiv. See also minimum wage
at Eckerton Hill Farm, 1
farmworkers’ average household income and, 1
Immokalee per capita income and, 1
at Lady Moon Farms, 1
piece basis, 1
tomato worker, 1
water, 1
quality, 1
Whiteside, Thomas, 1
Whitworth, Glenn, 1
Whitworth Farms, 1
Whole Foods Market, 1, 2, 3, 4
CIW and, 1
habitat, 1
health benefits, 1
population surveys, 1
volatiles and, 1
Williams, Amy Bennett, 1
winter fields, x
women. See also birth defects
laborers, 1
pregnancy, 1
Worker Protection Standard (Environmental Protection Agency), 1, 2
workers, tomato, xv. See also farmworker; slavery, modern-day
earnings of, 1
exposure to chemicals, 1
job requirements for, 1
lunch and bathroom breaks for, 1
reporting pesticide exposure, 1
typical life of, 1
wage, 1
women, 1
workers’ rights, 1
Wynette, Tammy, 1
deposition of Long, 1
Yeggy, Tricia, 1
yellow-leaf curl virus, 1
Yum! Brands, 1, 2, 3, See also specific companies
zoning laws, 1