U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative research group focused on the food industry has named Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry (UC Press, 2019), written by Science & Justice Affiliate, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Social Sciences Julie Guthman as one of the best books of 2019 about the U.S. food system.
Read more about Wilted in this campus news article:
Strawberries: The tasty fruit with a tainted environmental legacy and an uncertain future
Julie Guthman is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her previous books include Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California and Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism.