May 2012 issue

Increasing concentration of global processing

In 2011, each time that twelve trucks delivered a load of tomatoes for processing, one of them stopped at a Morning Star plant. This is not surprising, given that one shipment of tomatoes in three occurred between a field and a factory in California. The situation is not that different from eight years ago; but in 2004, one tomato-laden truck in six trundled along a road in Italy, one in nine in China and one in seventeen in Spain…

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