Look at that corn! LoCO has had a few people send us pictures of an odd mutant creature currently creeping the streets of Eureka. What the hell is that? we wanted to know.
Turns out it was an anti-GMObile.
We caught up with the “Fishy Corn” car in the Eureka Co-Op parking lot where its pilots, Jill Ruchala and César Maxit, were stocking up on — we’re guessing, here — GMO-free supplies. Maxit designed and built Fishy Corn a few years back for a Washington, D.C. Right to Know March in an attempt to raise awareness about GMO labeling. Since that time, four more sculpture cars — an apple, a soybean, a tomato and a sugar beat — have been built and are traversing the country drawing eyeballs to their cause. Their construction was supported, in part, by the company that makes Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps.
If you’d like to know more about Fishy Corn and its siblings and their battles with Monsanto and similar biotech targets, check out the Are We Eating Fishy Food? website, or check out the video below.