Tomatoes in Italy: The Social Cost of Production | FoodUnfolded AudioArticle
Channel: FoodUnfolded
Date: 2023-03-17

Tomatoes are a staple ingredient in many homes across Europe, but the story of how they reach your plate may surprise you. This is a dark story of the invisible people who pick our tomatoes in Italy, but the story parallels many of the other fruits and vegetables we love and eat today, and many of the countries that proudly grow them. The story opens with a rather cheap and affordable tomato sauce tin sitting on a supermarket shelf. It took kilos of tomatoes to make it, countless hands to harvest and process it, and yet the final product is very cheap – perhaps costing even less than 1 euro. But how is that possible?

Article by Silvia Lazzaris
Read by Silvia Lazzaris
Graphics by Eloise Adler
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro
1:10 The problem with cheap tomatoes
3:06 So how can farmers survive?
4:10 The toll on invisible workers
5:02 Italian “caporalato”: the gangmasters
7:45 Is it possible to have a more ethical tomato?
8:51 Realistic changes for producers, retailers, and consumers
9:23 Transparent packaging labels 
11:06 Subsidies to fair producers
11:16 Citizen-led initiatives
11:46 Spending more if possible
12:08 Using our voices
12:51 Credits

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