This story illustrates a big problem. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/business/25tomatoes.html?ref=us
The incentives run against your interests, the system is set up to hide such misdeeds, and we seldom check My dad actually told me about such practices back in about 1962, when the company he was working for went into producing tomatoes. In today’s complex food system, this is unacceptable. The basic problem has been around for a while, as noted here: http://www.plu.edu/~olufsdw/unpleasant.htm
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