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Wilted : Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry - Julie Guthman

Wilted

Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry

By: Julie Guthman

eBook | 20 August 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests.

In Wilted, Julie Guthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit’s production system. The particular conditions of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry.
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