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348 notes to pages 208–21712. Ibid.13. Weiss, “Seeds of Discord.”14. Associated Press, April 28, 2004.15. Quoted by Center for Food Safety, Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers, 44.16. Interview with Robert Schubert, CropChoice News, April 6, 2001.17. The story is reported in Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers, 23ff. In addition, I talkedto Scruggs’s lawyer, James Robertson, who has film of the arrangement set up byMonsanto agents.18. Associated Press, May 10, 2003.19. “Monsanto ‘Ruthless’ in Suing Farmers, Food Group Says,” Chicago Tribune,January 14, 2005. According to this article, of the ninety suits filed by Monsanto sofar, forty-six had been heard in St. Louis.20. St. Louis Business Journal, December 21, 2001.21. http://record.wustl.edu/archive/2000/10-09-00/articles/law.html.22. www.populist.com/02.18.mcmillen.html.23. Hervé Kempf, “Percy Schmeiser, un rebelle contre les OGM,” Le Monde, October17, 2002.24. The reader can consult Schmeiser’s Web site, where he presents all the detailsof his case: www.percyschmeiser.com.25. Hervé Kempf, “Le trouble d’une plaine du Saskatchewan,” Le Monde, January26, 2000.26. Toronto Star and Saskatoon Star Phoenix, June 6, 2000.27. Kempf, “Percy Schmeiser, un rebelle contre les OGM.”28. Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Percy Schmeiser, 2001 FCT 256 (March 29, 2001),51–55; Star Phoenix, March 30, 2001.29. Washington Post, March 30, 2001.30. Quoted by Kempf, “Percy Schmeiser, un rebelle contre les OGM.”31. Sacramento Bee, May 22, 2004.32. Ibid.33. Monsanto Co., Pledge Report, 2001–2, 19, http:www.monsanto.com/who_we_are/our_pledge/recent_reports.asp.34. CBC News and Current Affairs, June 21, 2001.35. Canadian Bar Association, Annual Conference, August 2001.36. Soil Association, Seeds of Doubt: North American Farmers’ Experience of GMCrops, September 2002, www.soilassociation.org/seedsofdoubt. This is a fundamentaldocument.37. New Scientist, November 24, 2001. Since then the Quebec government siteon GMOs has stated that “pollen can travel over a distance of at least two and a halfmiles,” www.ogm.gouv.qc.ca/envi_canolagm.html. This has been confirmed by Britishand Australian studies.38. “GM Volunteer Canola Causes Havoc,” Western Producer, September 6,2001.