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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Silent Strawberries

    America's appetite for strawberries has exploded in the last few decades. We now eat four times as many as we did in 1970, fueling a $2.5 billion industry. But getting all those strawberries from farms in Ventura and Monterey Counties to market takes a lot of pesticides.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Nov 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    America's appetite for strawberries has exploded in the last few decades. We now eat four times as many as we did in 1970, fueling a $2.5 billion industry. But getting all those strawberries from farms in Ventura and Monterey Counties to market takes a lot of pesticides. A new piece by the Center for Investigative Reporting explores the strawberry industry’s addiction to dangerous pesticides, and the communities put at risk.

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    Climate Pact, Strawberry Incesticide, and the “Frozen Industrial Complex”
    1. 0:00Climate Pact: U.S. Realities
    2. 7:35Climate Pact: China Realities
    3. 16:23Bill Cosby’s Twitter Fail and Kim Kardashian’s Win
    4. 27:49Silent StrawberriesYou’re reading this
    5. 41:01The Frozen Industrial Complex
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Bernice Yeung

      Reporter on health and welfare for the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Climate Pact, Strawberry Incesticide, and the “Frozen Industrial Complex”
    1. 0:00Climate Pact: U.S. Realities
    2. 7:35Climate Pact: China Realities
    3. 16:23Bill Cosby’s Twitter Fail and Kim Kardashian’s Win
    4. 27:49Silent StrawberriesYou’re reading this
    5. 41:01The Frozen Industrial Complex
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