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Agriculture Sector

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Dennis Hedgecock: The Oyster Is His World

    One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Dennis Hedgecock wants to breed a better oyster to feed the world. Since 99 percent of the biosphere's volume is sea water, it's time to put it to work. Oysters are a nearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    10 Sickened by Raw Milk in California

    Ten California residents have come down with food poisoning -- Campylobacter bacteria infections, to be exact -- after consuming raw milk produced by Fresno County-based Organic Pastures. Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by the dairy have been recalled and are s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Arsenic Found in Organic Brown Rice Syrup Baby Formula

    Arsenic is totally bad for you. Even if it doesn't kill you a la the classic "old lace" cocktail, small amounts have been associated with raising the risk for cancer and heart disease. Chronic arsenic ingestion in the young appears to result in dumb children (low IQ and "poor intellectual function") ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Kardashian Sisters' Fur Peddling at Their DASH Stores Draws Ire of Animal Rights Activists

    The Kardashian sisters can't escape the sour taste of haterade these days. First there was a movement to get Kim to pay more taxes (she saw a California rate of 10.3 percent in 2010 even though she made $12 million). Then there was the post-divorce-announcement boycott of all things Kim (and, theref ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    The Year in Food Recalls

    It was a bad year for orange fruit (papayas, cantaloupes) and leafy greens (especially romaine). Ground turkey took a big hit (36 million pounds recalled), and raw milk products were pulled from shelves. Here's a look back at 2011 in food recalls, a year of E. coli conundrums, Listeria hysteria and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Q & A With Beekeeper Brent Edelen: Where Honey Went Wrong, What "Wildflower" Often Really Means Industry Changes

    Beekeeper Brent Edelengrampashoney.com​Brent Edelen, a sixth generation raw honey producer in Alamosa, Colorado, makes some of the best honeys we've ever tasted. Like grass-fed beef, you can literally taste the terroir in the honey that Edelen makes under the Grampa's Gourmet label. In part, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Raw Milk Products Recalled Recall Upheld After Children Sickened in California

    Flickr/grongarOrganic Pastures raw milk has been quarantined in California.​ The California Department of Food and Agriculture has upheld its recall of raw milk products, even though the dairy demanded the quarantine be lifted, saying tests show its milk is pathogen-free, according to the Asso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    U.S. Still a Dumping Ground for Crappy Honey, Study Finds

    Flickr/Joelk75​ They're calling it "honey laundering." More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores is filtered to the point where it contains no pollen -- which would make it flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies, according to testing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Trader Joe's to See Angry Farm Workers March on Headquarters: They Want Better Wages, Improved Conditions in Fields

    ​Tis the season of protest. Some angry people will be occupying Trader Joe's today, and not just for the frozen tamales. Unfortunately, this is not a case of occupiers carbo-loading for winter. Rather farm workers are pissed at Trader Joe's for failing to join a movement that seeks to improve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Backwards Beekeepers, L.A.'s Bee Rescue Service

    ​ Modern talk of bees tends to dwell on their deficiencies more than their benefits. Colony Collapse Disorder. Fatal bee-sting allergies. Killer bees both Africanized and Saturday Night Live. But honey is a food that keeps indefinitely, much like the Metro trains that buzz incessantly on this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Raw Milk Controversy Nothing New

    Laurie AvocadoClosed Alta-Dena Drive Thru Dairy, Lincoln Heights​People holding signs supporting raw milk, others giving testimonials of how drinking it has benefited their health. Were these scenes from the Thursday downtown protest over the raid on Rawesome Foods?, no, they occurred in Janua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Crying Over Spilt Milk: Rawesome Volunteer Speaks Out on Yesterday's Raid Protest Rally

    Tambako/Flickr​More details are emerging about yesterday morning's raid on Rawesome, a members-only raw food collective whose owner was arrested and jailed for the heinous crime of peddling raw milk. Most absurd and appalling is the fact that the raid was the result of a year-long undercover o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Raw Milk Raid in Venice: Three Arrested For Alleged Unpermitted Sales of Unpasteurized Dairy

    Don't do it.​Another day another raid in Venice. But this one didn't involve marijuana shops or pot docs or even RV dwellers. No, this time the targets were purveyors of fine, raw milk, a product you can't really sell legally without special permits. Those, authorities say, were not in-hand w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Mountains of Melons

    Felicia FriesemaOgen melons from Weiser Family Farms at the Hollywood market.​ Summer at the markets brings an embarrassment of riches and a bit of sensory overload. A prime example of this manifests when you walk by the Weiser Family Farms booth on a hot market day. Even feet away, you can' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Double Take: Humane Society Partners with United Egg Producers for Chicken Welfare

    Felicia FriesemaEggs from Kendor Farms at the Hollywood market.​ In a surprisingly unprecedented move, the nation's largest egg farming cooperative, representing, according to their website, "95% of of all the nation's egg-laying hens," has partnered with the Humane Society of the United State ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    New Crop: Purple Viking Potatoes Salsify News

    Felicia FriesemaThe new Viking potato from Weiser Family Farms.​ Another brand new potato arrived at the Weiser Family Farms tables this weekend, giving Weiser's purple and gold Laker Baker a visual run for its money. The Viking potato has a deep burgundy purple skin mottled with uneven splot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Book Review: Tomatoland , A Tale Of Tasteless Tomatoes, Toxic Chemicals And Slavery

    ​Forewarning: If you ever want to buy a grocery store tomato again, you should not read this review. Tomatoland by Barry Estrabrook is a contrasting story of McMansions and crumbling shacks, the bright red, beauty pageant-worthy orbs on your $8 Angus burger versus the fruit sprayed with so ma ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    May 5, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Judges Cochon 555's Traveling Pork and Wine Bacchanalia

    ​Forewarning: If you ever want to buy a grocery store tomato again, you should not read this review. Tomatoland by Barry Estrabrook is a contrasting story of McMansions and crumbling shacks, the bright red, beauty pageant-worthy orbs on your $8 Angus burger versus the fruit sprayed with so ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Q & A With Amber Huffman: Bourbon Blunders, Derby Cocktails Cooking For Jess Jackson At His Kentucky Racehorse Farm

    AHuffmanHuffman's Backyard View Yesterday (Literally)... Yeah, We're Jealous ​This weekend's Kentucky Derby may mark the beginning of summer mint julep season, but for Amber Huffman, the private chef at two Lexington, Kentucky thoroughbred racehorse farms, Saturday is all about wine. "Mint jul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: First Cherries of the Season

    Amy ScattergoodEarly cherries from Murray Family Farms​ The earliest hint that the seasons are starting to switch from spring to summer is the baskets, bowls, and piles of early sweet and sour cherries on local market tables. We started watching the calendar when the artichokes showed up. On ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Swiftboat Veterans for Fruit: An Event in Support of Archi's Acres

    ​ The evils of Monsanto and its big produce brethren are well documented (just type "the evils of" into a google search bar), but the good things that small, organic farms are doing often fly under the radar. In the spirit of righting that wrong, the art gallery Chalk Los Angeles will host Ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    New Crop: Weiser's New All Red Potato

    Felicia FriesemaWeiser Family Farms' All Red potato.​ Alex Weiser of Weiser Family Farms is fond of making us ask, "Ooo what's that?" March's entry was a pomegranate-colored tuber sitting off in a corner pile, partially obscured by a box of Chilean Red fingerling potatoes. Those familiar wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Price Fixing Lawsuit: Egg Cartel Not Giving Consumers A Break?

    Several of the country's largest egg producers stand accused of participating in a scheme that drove up the wholesale price of eggs by 40%. And they did it under the guise of treating animals more humanely: By systematically killing off egg-laying hens, supposedly to increase cage space for the rema ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 23, 2010

    The Birth of Coffee

    Several of the country's largest egg producers stand accused of participating in a scheme that drove up the wholesale price of eggs by 40%. And they did it under the guise of treating animals more humanely: By systematically killing off egg-laying hens, supposedly to increase cage space for the rema ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Pinto/Zebra Potatoes, or Laker Bakers

    If you say you bleed purple and gold, chances are you might be one of those people. You know, face paint, multiple car flags, wrist warmers at the office, color coordinated food for your game viewing party menus. With the Lakers now playing in the NBA finals, it's good to know that you can now add ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Ash Cloud Over Europe Disrupts Travelers and Fish Industry

    The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed or halted, c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2010

    The Immovable Feast: Deep Roots and Lofty Dreams

    The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed or halted, c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    Craft and Folk Art Exhibit

    The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed or halted, c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    SushiMasters Competition in Little Tokyo This Sunday: Chefs With Knives A Food and Sake Festival Afterwards

    If you should find yourself in downtown's Little Tokyo this Sunday afternoon, trolling for zuke maguro or morikomi or hamachi sashimi or iwashi sushi, say, you might do well to stop by the Artani/Japan America Theatre before you down too many cups of sake. There you will find, mid-afternoon, the fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Emerald Beaut Plums: Late Summer Plums Hit the Fruits Stands

    Photo credit: Todd Porter​Emerald Beaut Plums will be showing up at farmers markets this weekend. Many of us have waited long and patiently for this green plum to hit the stands, and at least one farmer, Annie from Sweet Tree Farms, has finally deemed her crop ripe and sent crews up the ladde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Brazilian Cattle Exporter Signs Pact with Greenpeace After Deforestation Report

    Yesterday the Brazilian beef exporter Bertin reported that it had signed a pact with Greenpeace to refuse to buy cattle from deforested parts of the Amazon. Greenpeace claims that the Brazilian Amazon cattle industry is the largest driver of deforestaton in the world, responsible for 14% of the wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Small Farms Exempt from New Egg Safety Regulations

    Ah, government bureaucracy. Since the discovery in the mid-1980s that table eggs contaminated with the bacteria Salmonella Enteritidis were making thousands of people sick, food regulators and lawmakers have been quibbling over how to address the problem. On July 9, they finally did something about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Dairy Crisis Sends 101,000 Cows To Slaughterhouse

    If lush, green, rolling hillsides dotted with healthy cows chomping on grasses seems like some kind of pastoral fantasy, the reality is turning into a nightmare for California dairy farmers.

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    Battle of the Literary Sexes

    If lush, green, rolling hillsides dotted with healthy cows chomping on grasses seems like some kind of pastoral fantasy, the reality is turning into a nightmare for California dairy farmers.

  • LA Life

    May 10, 2007

    Alex Weiser

    Green Giant

  • Stage

    January 11, 2007

    Swine Song

    Greg Kotis, on his agri-eco farce, Pig Farm

  • News

    March 2, 2006

    UFW Begins to Crack

    Top woman administrator resigns over union’s media attacks

  • News

    February 9, 2006

    Gag Me With a Grape

    UFW moves to silence its media critics

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    Great Cesar's Ghost

    The UFW has to give it up, and reinvent a culture of organizing

  • News

    January 12, 2006

    Rotting Legacy

    Time may have arrived for Cesar Chavez’s UFW to step aside

  • Eat+Drink

    November 17, 2005

    Two Little Piggies

    Time may have arrived for Cesar Chavez’s UFW to step aside

  • News

    April 14, 2005

    Dirty Prices

    Governor and Barbara Boxer push ethanol

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Where’s the Beef?

    Rustling makes a comeback in California

  • Film+TV

    April 22, 2004

    Making Sense

    Jonathan Demme presents Haitian crusader Jean Dominique

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Harvest of Pain

    The long, hard journey from Central Valley seed to caesar salad

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    The GOP Will Fix California’s Economy

    Like George W. Bush has fixed America’s

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Growing Pains

    What the governor sows, he will reap

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    The Million-Dollar March

    Farm workers want Gray Davis to expand their rights and shun big growers/donors

  • News

    August 10, 2000

    Money Fields

    End of the line for L.A. River park

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    River Affront

    L.A. River boosters try to stop federal money for industrial project

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