Winter tomatoes

[mayica]

Gourmet magazine has an article up about the slave labor conditions in winter tomato growing camps in FLorida -- which is, apparently, where the overwhelming majority (90%?) of US-grown winter tomatoes come from. It's pretty horrible. If you do want tomatoes in winter:
Whole Foods is the only grocery chain that has signed on to the Coalition of

Comments

[ruthling]

Wow. That's eye opening.

[dpg178]

I wonder if grape tomato harvesters are subject to these conditions as well?

[ams16]

Having not read the article, do they say anything about the sources for canned tomatoes? In the winter, I only tend to use canned, anyway.

[mayica]

No, canned tomatoes pretty much all come from California, not FLorida. Like you, I tend to use canned all winter.