Monsanto Company

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: GMO Blues First Summer Corn

When you Google Monsanto, the website link has both the company's name and its slogan -- A Sustainable Agriculture Company. It's a website that works very hard from the first click to reframe the conversation around the most controversial issue in worldwide agriculture. Perhaps with good reason. ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Gross Stuff in Your Food The Patron Saint of Hangovers

Grist: It turns out that Subway is not necessarily any more healthful than McDonald's. Huffington Post Politics: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto in a soybean seed patent violation case that pitted Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman against the biotech giant. Mental Floss: From bacon t ... More >>

Q & A with Gardening for Geeks's Christy Wilhelmi: Black Thumbs, Raccoon-Deterrents Why Garden Hoses Are Scary

What is it about Christy Wilhelmi's three-minute tip-of-the-week podcast Gardenerd that makes it feel like essential listening? Is it that it's so short and informative? Or maybe that Wilhelmi's pealing bell voice makes everything garden-related -- even getting rid of pesky powdery mildew -- sound e ... More >>

Marisa Tomei Was Pissed When the GMO Labeling Proposition Failed. So She Got Some Friends Together...

It's 3 p.m. on a Sunday, and on the back patio at Axe in Venice, wooden folding chairs and communal benches have been arranged in a semicircle opposite one cushioned chair, positioned front and center, where (the restaurant's chalkboard promises) Dr. Vandana Shiva, environmental activist, seed saver ... More >>

Whole Foods Pledges to Label All Genetically Modified Food by 2018

On Friday, Whole Foods Markets announced that all products in their stores with genetically modified ingredients will be clearly labeled within five years. They say they're making the move to meet consumer demand for GMO labeling, and that the five-year time frame is to give their suppliers time to ... More >>

Disney's Tomorrowland Inspires an Art Show

Proposition 37 Election Results: Monsanto Money, Lawsuit Worries Sink GMO Labeling Advocates' Hopes

California voters rejected Proposition 37 last night by a margin of 47% to 53% with 98.5% precincts reporting.

Prop 37 Goes Down: Big Ag Wins This Round in The Fight For GMO Labeling

Just a few weeks back, it looked as though Proposition 37, the law that would require the labeling of most foods that include genetically modified ingredients, would pass with ease. Polls showed that CA voters approved of the measure by a wide margin.

Proposition 37: Support Declines for GMO Labeling Law

It's been a bad week for the Yes on 37 campaign, the group fighting to pass a ballot measure that would require labeling of genetically engineered foods sold in California. On Monday, another California political pundit urged voters to be wary of the measure, and on Tuesday, a pair of new polls pa ... More >>

Molly Munger's Prop. 38 and Anti-GMO Prop. 37 Draw Reader Response

Yes on Prop 37 Releases TV Ad: "Food Is Love"

If you're looking for the disparity in power between the two factions clashing over Proposition 37, the upcoming ballot initiative regarding the labeling of GMO products, consider this: The No-On-37 folks have spent tens of millions on ads, including a barrage of television commercials, opposing the ... More >>

Proposition 37 Genetically Modified Food Fight

Could spawn endless lawsuits against small shops

Get Out The Vote: Prop 37, California's GMO Labeling Initiative, Could Mean Change For The Entire Country

So hey, did you hear? There's an election coming up! And while we all know it's important to vote in the presidential election, in California there's another reason to vote: Proposition 37. A few weeks back at a panel on food policy in Washington D.C., which was part of the Association of Food Jour ... More >>

Amanda Palmer's Dopey Topless Protest (NSFW)

See also: Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview Here at West Coast Sound we love it when musicians would rather be naked than wear fur. (Particularly when it's Waka Flocka Flame.) Indeed our sympathies quite often lie with activists who are poorly-clothed. So even though ... More >>

Cornerstone Theater Company's Hunger Cycle Kicks Off With Cafe Vida by Lisa Loomer

Adult Swim's Eagleheart with Chris Elliott: An Inside Look at the Second Season

Also check out L.A. Weekly's interview with Chris Elliott from the first season of Eagleheart. On a blazing hot day last September, the cast and crew of Adult Swim series Eagleheart were holed up inside a small stage tucked deep within the eastern San Fernando Valley. They were nearing the end of ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Farmers Challenge Monsanto, Sous-Vide Cocktails Possible Bourdain Book Deal for Marilyn Hagerty

Reuters: Organic farmers vow to continue challenging Monsanto's patents on genetically modified seeds, defying a court that ruled no controversy exists. Food Arts: Julian Cox, and others, are using sous-vide for cocktails. Call it "flash brew." Grand Forks Herald: A book deal with Anthony Bourdain ... More >>

To Our Health

Monsanto Wins Legal Case, Twirls Mustache, Cackles, and Dashes Off

When we hear the name "Monsanto," we often imagine a mustache-twirling villain with a velvet tongue and a heart as black as oven-burnt molasses.  Perhaps it's fitting then that, in January, Natural News readers voted Monsanto -- not a man but an agribusiness giant -- the world's most evil corporati ... More >>

Activists Call for Food Safety Czar's Ouster

Occupy cornfields! Support is growing for a petition calling for the ouster of Michael Taylor, a senior adviser for the FDA who formerly served as vice president of Monsanto, the controversial agricultural multinational at the forefront of genetically modified foods, the Washington Post reports. Pre ... More >>

5 Best Thanksgiving Artworks in L.A.

Judging by artworks on view around town, you'd think L.A. invented Thanksgiving. Or, maybe I'm reading too much into it. In any case, here are five Thanksgiving-related L.A. artworks (that are probably not inspired by Thanksgiving).

Hungary Destroys Genetically Modified Corn Crops

Flickr/stevendepolo​ Hungary has destroyed almost 1,000 acres of corn found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, which are illegal in the country, International Business Times reports. The corn was plowed under so that pollen would not contaminate other crops. The action came ... More >>

Ruminations on the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Very Large Poultry

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 >>

HEY KIDS, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Food Inc.: Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser Discuss Food Safety, Walmart and How to Feed the World

From left to right, Evan Kleiman moderated a discussion between Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.​The lights in USC's Bovard Auditorium dimmed and the crowd erupted into whoops and applause. It was as if Bon Jovi was about to take the stage. But in a way, Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser ar ... More >>

Top 5 Old School Indie L.A. Health Food Stores

J. Ritz​ Close your eyes and breathe. Deeply. Smell those bulk whole grains commingling with the aromas of spirulina, alternative pastas, sprouts of all types, and freshly juiced wheatgrass? Now take a look around. See the earnest hand-painted signs promoting health tips? Notice the knotty pin ... More >>

Whole Foods Conditionally Supports Genetically Engineered Alfalfa

Flickr/VirtualErnSome Roundup with your mayo?​ Whole Foods Market conditionally threw its support behind the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent decision to deregulate genetically engineered Roundup Ready Alfalfa. In an email sent to customers last week, Whole Foods professed their support ... More >>

Haitian Farmers to Burn Donated Monsanto Hybrid Seed

MonsantoHelpful diagram illustrating crop hybridization​ Missouri-based agribusiness multinational Monsanto's latest attempt to cultivate good press is being met with widespread reproach in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, where the GMO giant is donating 130 tons of pesticide-coated hybrid and conven ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad.

Movie Reviews: Food, Inc., Imagine That, Moon

Also, The Art of Being Straight, The Taking of Pelham 123 and more

A Samba for a Modern Night: New Music From Brazil

The sounds of a new Brazil arrive from the slipstream, bringing beauty and rhythm

Darkness Falls, Abstraction Illuminates

Christine Nguyen, Daniel Richter, Mel Bochner, Victor Man

Lost Path to Shangri-la

The bridge at Lower Topanga’s Rodeo Grounds

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Nothing Serious

Ears to You

Terminator Genes

Repetition in politics, news, big business and human suffering

Welcome to the Concrete Jungle

John Powers in the land of no culture, surreal Cancún

A Deal-Maker’s Demise

Gerald Meral steps down as head of environmental group

Demon Seed

Can the Exorcist save us from genetically modified foods, or is it another freak in disguise?

Letters

Seeds of Wrath

Silencing debate on biotech foods

Taco Shell Hell

Frankenfoods

Should genetically modified produce frighten you?

Can Biology End World Hunger?

Frakentrader?

UFW Can’t Sell the Union Label

The UFW loses strawberry vote — to a group that walks and talks like a company union

Odds and Ends

Strawberry Jam

Grower ploys dash UFW dreams in strawberry fields