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Paperback Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry Volume 6 Book

ISBN: 0520305280

ISBN13: 9780520305281

Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry Volume 6

(Part of the Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series)

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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,...

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