Monsanto shareholders reject study on crop risks
Shareholders of Monsanto Co. on Tuesday voted down a proposed study of how the company's genetically engineered crops, or GMOs, may pose financial and legal risks to the seed giant. They also reelected ...
Students Support legal action against Monsanto
Occupy Grinnell members and allies gathered outside of the local Monsanto Plant with the purpose of a non-violent protest against the large corporation and its effects on organic farming on Tuesday, Jan. 31. The same day, in New York, members of around 60 family farms, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations were facing Monsanto as [...]
Local organic seed growers take on Monsanto in federal court
Carol Koury, owner of Asheville’s Sow True Seed, joined some 82 other farmers, advocacy groups and seed companies as part of a class-action lawsuit brought in federal court today, Jan. 31, in New York City. The Organic Seed Grower and Trade Association and others are taking on agricultural giant Monsanto, in a filing by the New York-based Public Patent Foundation. Koury and Sow True Seed staffer ...
OSHA: No Citations in Detasseling Accident; Lawsuits Still Pending
Six months to the day after a tragic detasseling accident in Whiteside County OSHA releases it will not issue any citations. On July 25th, Jade Garza and Hannah Kendall, both 14 years old, were killed when they came in contact with an irrigator in a field near Tampico.
Bain: A consulting firm too hot to handle? (Fortune, 1987)
FORTUNE -- On a January morning four years ago, 30 sleek, immaculately turned-out executives sat tensely at a ring of tables in a large conference room at the Hyatt Rickeys Hotel in Palo Alto. They had flown in from all over the world for a regular partners' meeting of Bain & Co., a Boston-based management consulting firm. Their attention was riveted not on a discussion of the firm's revenues ...
Bain: A consulting firm too hot to handle?
FORTUNE -- On a January morning four years ago, 30 sleek, immaculately turned-out executives sat tensely at a ring of tables in a large conference room at the Hyatt Rickeys Hotel in Palo Alto. They had flown in from all over the world for a regular partners' meeting of Bain & Co., a Boston-based management consulting firm. Their attention was riveted not on a discussion of the firm's revenues ...
Eastman Kodak's past success now a washed-out memory
Washington U professor says he predicted the film company's demise in the 1990s
County staff: Allow GMOs
If the and Open Space, told Boulder Weekly that his department is advising the Boulder County commissioners follow the recommendations of their own staff, the planting of additional genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be allowed on publicly funded open space.