According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamine, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame its counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.

— Barry Estabrook

Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.

— Barry Estabrook