Barry Estabrook

W. W. Norton will publish Barry’s book Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Guide to Sustainable Meat on June 8, 2015. After examining all things to do with hog farming, Barry concludes that pork is either the worst meat you can eat–or the very best. It all depends on how it is raised. He still eats bacon, but he’s very picky about what goes into his pan. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Barry’s 2011 book about how industrial agriculture has ruined the tomato in all ways–gastronomic, environmental, and in terms of labor abuse–was published in the summer of 2011 by Andrews McMeel. It was a New York Times bestseller and won the Farmworker Justice Award and inspired the 2014 documentary Food Chains.