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notes to pages 230–234 35114. Hervé Morin, “Les doutes s’accumulent sur l’innocuité du maïs transgénique,”Le Monde, May 26, 1999. The studies include Angelika Hilbeck et al.,“Effects of Transgenic Bacillus Thuringiensis Corn-Fed Prey on Mortality and DevelopmentTime of Immature Chrysoperla Carnea,” Environmental Entomology 27,no. 2 (April 1998): 480–87.15. Morin, “Les doutes s’accumulent sur l’innocuité du maïs transgénique.”16. Ibid.17. Carol Kaesuk Yoon, “Altered Corn May Imperil Butterfly, Researchers Say,”New York Times, May 20, 1999.18. Lincoln Brower, “Canary in the Cornfield: The Monarch and the Bt CornControversy,” Orion Magazine, Spring 2001, www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/85.19. Press release, Biotechnology Industry Organization, November 2, 1999.20. Carol Kaesuk Yoon, “No Consensus on Effect of Genetically Altered Corn onButterflies,” New York Times, November 4, 1999.21. See, for example, “Scientists Discount Threat to Butterflies from AlteredCorn,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 2, 1999.22. Laura Hansen and John Obrycki, “Field Deposition of Transgenic CornPollen: Lethal Effects on the Monarch Butterfly,” Oecologia 125, no. 2 (2000):241–48.23. News in Science, August 4, 2000; see also Le Monde, August 25, 2000.24. Marc Kaufman, “Biotech Corn Is Test Case for Industry; Engineered Food’sFuture Hinges on Allergy Study,” Washington Post, March 19, 2001.25. Joly and Marris, “Les Américains ont-ils accepté les OGM?” 21.26. Michael Pollan, “Playing God in the Garden,” New York Times Magazine, October25, 1998.27. This exemplary document can be consulted at www.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat2/bnfL055.pdf.28. “Life-Threatening Food? More than 50 Americans Claim Reactions to RecalledStarLink Corn,” CBS News, May 17, 2001.29. Bill Freese, “The StarLink Affair: A Critique of the Government/IndustryResponse to Contamination of the Food Supply with StarLink Corn and an Examinationof the Potential Allergenicity of StarLink’s Cry9C Protein,” Friends of theEarth, July 17, 2001, 35–36, www.foe.org/safefood/starlink.pdf.30. Ibid., 36.31. Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Liesabout the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating (Fairfield, IA: Yes!Books, 2003), 171.32. Marc Kaufman, “EPA Rejects Biotech Corn as Human Food: Federal TestsDo Not Eliminate Possibility That It Could Cause Allergic Reactions, Agency Told,”Washington Post, July 28, 2001.