Innovations in tomato breeding and mechanical harvester technologies, driven in part by demand for the condiment, helped define modern industrial agriculture.

Industrial agriculture, in many cases, diluted flavor and nutrients for the sake of yield.

And isn't industrial agriculture the price that has to be paid for feeding the world?

It was not something many farms could manage in an age of homogenised, industrial agriculture.

Food supplies worldwide will be disrupted by intensifying droughts, and industrial agriculture will be particularly vulnerable to a surge in pathogens and pests from warmer temperatures.