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Tomato ripening rooms reveal the growing costs of the produce industry’s massive consolidation.

Tomato ripening rooms reveal the growing costs of the produce industry’s massive consolidation. Just north of the border in Texas, there are town-sized warehouses filled with sealed rooms, designed to transform tomatoes from green to red. An invisible gas, ethylene, is carefully meted into these rooms, where imported Mexican tomatoes ripen on a schedule set by logistics operators rather than by the sun. If you are an American adult, nearly every tomato you have eaten in winter was ripened this way. Read Next U.S. and Mexico Have 1 Week Left to Settle Corn Clash All of New York’s Apples Farmers

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