America's appetite for strawberries has exploded in the last few decades. We now eat four times as many as we did in 1970, fueling a $2.5 billion industry. But getting all those strawberries from farms in Ventura and Monterey Counties to market takes a lot of pesticides. A new piece by the Center for Investigative Reporting explores the strawberry industry’s addiction to dangerous pesticides, and the communities put at risk.
Silent Strawberries
Credits
Guest:
- Bernice Yeung - Reporter on health and welfare for the Center for Investigative Reporting. - @bmyeung