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…

- Sanjay Rawal

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…

- Sanjay Rawal

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

- Sanjay Rawal

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…

- Sanjay Rawal

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…

- Sanjay Rawal

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…

- Sanjay Rawal

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…

- Sanjay Rawal