Healthy to eat, unhealthy to grow: Strawberries embody the contradictions of California agriculture
- Written by Julie Guthman, Professor of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Suspected infestation of Macrophomina phaseolina, a "novel" soil pathogen, in the non-fumigated buffer zone of a strawberry fieldJulie Guthman, CC BY-ND
Agricultural abundance is a pillar of the California dream. In 2016 the state turned out more than US$45 billion worth of meat, milk and crops. Long before nutritionists agreed that fresh fruits...