The world according to Monsanto : pollution, corruption, and

NotesIntroduction: The Monsanto Question1. The program was broadcast on November 15, 2005.2. Available on DVD in the Alerte Verte collection (www.alerte-verte.com), this filmwas awarded the grand prize at the Festival International du Reportage d’Actualité et duDocumentaire de Société (FIGRA–Le Touquet), the Buffon Prize at the InternationalScientific Film Festival of Paris, and the best reportage prize, the grand prize, and theUshuaïa TV prize at the International Ecological Film Festival in Bourges.3. Trans. note: The U.S. Patent Office finally rejected the patent in April 2008.4. This report was broadcast on Arte on October 18, 2005. It is available on DVDin the Alerte Verte collection.5. In the words of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-BiotechApplications (ISAAA), a pro-GMO organization that provides these figures (www.isaaa.org).6. Monsanto, Pledge Report, 2005 (www.monsanto.com/who_we_are/our_pledge/recent_reports.asp), 12.7. Ibid., 3.8. Ibid., 30.9. Ibid., 9.10. Ibid., inside front cover.1. PCBs: White-Collar Crime1. See Dennis Love, My City Was Gone: One American Town’s Toxic Secret, ItsAngry Band of Locals, and a $700 Million Day in Court (New York: William Morrow,2006).