My dad was a breeder. Most of his work happened in little test plots and didn't require much labor. He tried growing them for a while, and realized t….

My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because….

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of eco….

I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life..

We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at home….

The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about fl….

I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that….