SoiferI VtP Annotation: Toxic subsistence agriculture

This visualization conveys the manner in which toxics and the economy are intertwined, as well as the potential for the economic to entrap people in a viscious cycle that propogates the toxic. It conveys the large scale of the issue, as well as the manner in which toxicity is not always fully apparent--one cannot know these tomatoes are toxic unless one reads the caption or does a test for pesticide content. Families that tend to farms are forced to be exposed to these toxins so as to ensure that they can economically prosper, a viscious bind that keeps them entrapped--they need the pesticides so as to sell their produce, but the pesticides themselves are dangerous to their health.