[Mrs. P]

I wonder why grape and cherry tomatoes are “safe” to eat - maybe because they don’t touch the ground?

[weegee]

I wonder why grape and cherry tomatoes are “safe” to eat - maybe because they don’t touch the ground?

If it is like the scare presentation that I witnessed Caesar Chavez give to college students, it is because they are picked by a different union.

He was warning us on the toxic problems with table grapes urging a boycott. His real goal was union negotiation. He lied to kids. He was repeatedly asked about rasins and wine, etc. He said that those were different unions and not to boycott them.

[4yearlurker]

I don't think so. When I was kid growing up in South Jersey in the early 1970s I worked on many a farm. Back then the farmers let the tomatoes grow and lay right on the ground in the fields. No support at all. Now the use the round wire supports.

[PAR35]

I wonder why grape and cherry tomatoes are “safe” to eat - maybe because they don’t touch the ground?

Perhaps they don't come from Mexico.