Photo: #Tomatoes are inspected as part of quality control at West Coast Tomato June 21, 2008 in Palmetto, Florida. The Food and Drug Administration sent officials to Florida and Mexico to investigate tomato farms as part of a salmonella probe. Over 550 people in the US and Mexico have been sickened with salmonella because of tainted tomatoes.
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Tomatoes are inspected as part of quality control at West Coast Tomato June 21, 2008 in Palmetto, Florida. The Food and Drug Administration sent officials to Florida and Mexico to investigate tomato farms as part of a salmonella probe. Over 550 people in the US and Mexico have been sickened with salmonella because of tainted tomatoes. (Photo by Robert Browman/Getty Images)

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'The End of Food'

Broadcast: Midday, 06/24/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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Paul Roberts, bestselling author of "The End of Oil," is out with a new book, "The End of Food," which he discussed recently at the Commonwealth Club of California.

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