OK... this is not a very pretty tomato. It's small and scarred, but it will taste good. More important, we grew it her at home. It's organic (mostly). And it wasn't a product of some big corporation worried about its supply chain and profits.Friday on NPR's science program they talked about how in Florida agricultural laborers tending and picking the tomatoes, are kept as slaves, actually chained in sheds to prevent escape. This news angered me. I will never buy a Florida tomato. I will never have their tomatoes on my hamburgers anymore.
This little tomato (and the bigger ones we grow) is the symbol of my rebellion from the tyranny of the huge food industry corporations. I will not eat your tomatoes! I grow my own!
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