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Index
A
acids, 1
advertising copy, 1
African Americans, 1, 2, 3
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1
Ag-Mart Produce, Inc., 1, 2, 3, 4
birth defects and, 1, 2, 3
chemical withdrawal, 1, 2
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
B
Bacillus thuringiensis, 1
Bad Actors, 1. See also specific Bad Actors
banana, 1
Bastianich, Lidia, 1
bathroom breaks, 1
Bauer, Mary, 1, 2
Bayer CropScience, 1
Beard, James, 1
Beard on Food (Beard), 1
Beddard, Tom, 1
Bejo Seeds, Inc., 1
Benitez, Lucas, 1, 2, 3
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
breeders, tomato, 1, 2, 3
Klee on, 1
Britain, tomatoes in, 1
Brown, Reggie, 1, 2, 3
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
Bush, Jeb, 1, 2
C
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
Canada, 1, 2
Candelario, Abraham, 1, 2, 3
canning tomatoes, xiii, 1, 2
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
Cherry Roma, 1, 2
Chetelat, Roger, 1, 2, 3, 4
on disease, 1
Chidsey, John, 1
child labor, xvi, 1
child-care programs, 1, 2
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 Gene
tics 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
cover crops, 1, 2, 3
“coyote,” 1
crew
bosses, 1
regular members of, 1
crime
index, 1
prevention practices, 1
“crimson” gene, 1
Crist, Charlie, 1, 2
to Benitez, 1
to Reyes, 1
crop
cover, 1, 2, 3
development, 1
management, 1
rotation, 1
cross-pollination, 1
Cuban tomatoes, 1
cubeta, 1
Cuello, Abel, 1
culture, tomato, 1
D
Dade County, 1
Daiker, Davis, 1
Davilos, Ricardo, 1
Davis, Shelly, 1
debt-peonage, 1, 2
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
DNA sequencing, 1, 2, 3
domestic tomato. See Solanum lycopersicum
domestication of tomato, 1, 2
Domingo, Lucas Mariano, 1, 2, 3
Dominguez, Juan, 1
drip irrigation, 1
DuPont, 1
Durbin, Richard, 1
E
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
F
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
Flores, Miguel, 1, 2
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
freeze of 2010 and, 1, 2
growing conditions, 1
harvest, 1
history, 1
imported foods vs., 1
Mexican tomato vs., 1
percentage of, in United States, 1
planting, 1
production of, 1, 2
pruning, 1
ripening, 1
salmonella outbreak and, 1, 2
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
freeze of 2010, 1, 2
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
fungal diseases, 1, 2
fungicides, 1
quantity of use, 1
furaneol, 1
fusarium wilt, 1, 2
G
Gabriel, Julia, 1
Galapagos Islands, 1
Galindo, Emilio, 1, 2
Garcia, Carlos Chavez, 1
gardeners, 1
Gargiulo, Inc., 1, 2
“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
H
Hague Convention, 1
“harboring illegal aliens,” 1
hardness, 1
Harvest of Shame, 1
harvesting, 1, 2, 3
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
herbicides, 1, 1
quantity of use, in pounds, 1
Herrera, Francisca, 1, 2, 3
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
horticulture, 1, 2
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
humidity, 1, 2
hunger strike, 1, 1
Hurricane Andrew, 1
Hurricane Jeanne, 1
hydroponic technology, 1, 2, 3
hygiene, 1
I
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
insecticide, 1, 2
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