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356 notes to pages 305–31726. Michael Pollan, “Playing God in the Garden,” New York Times Magazine, October25, 1998.27. “Farmers Violating Biotech Corn Rules,” Associated Press, January 31, 2001.28. Susan Lang, “Seven-Year Glitch: Cornell Warns that Chinese GM CottonFarmers Are Losing Money Due to ‘Secondary’ Pests,” Cornell Chronicle Online,July 25, 2006, www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July06/Bt.cotton.China.ssl.html.16. How Multinational CorporationsControl the World’s Food1. Vandana Shiva, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological Degradationand Political Conflict in Punjab (London: Zed Books, 2002).2. http:nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html.3. Vandana Shiva and Kunwar Jalees, Seeds of Suicide: The Ecological and HumanCosts of Seed Monopolies and Globalisation of Agriculture (Navdanaya, May2006).4. Vandana Shiva has devoted several books to the subject: Protect or Plunder?Understanding Intellectual Property Rights (London: Zed Books, 2001); Stolen Harvest:The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (London: Zed Books, 2000); Éthiqueet agro-industrie: Main basse sur la vie (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1996).5. Monsanto obtained the patent when it purchased the wheat division of theBritish company Unilever in 1998. See “Monsanto Wheat Patent Disputed,” TheScientist, February 5, 2004.6. Mounira Badro, Benoît Martimort-Asso, and Nadia Karina Ponce Morales,“Les enjeux des droits de propriété intellectuelle sur le vivant dans les nouveaux paysindustrialisés: Le cas du Mexique,” Continentalisation, Cahier de Recherche 1, no. 6(August 2001): 8.7. Shiva, Éthique et agro-industrie, 8.8. Badro, Martimort-Asso, and Ponce Morales, “Les enjeux des droits de propriétéintellectuelle sur le vivant,” 8.9. Quoted in Shiva, Éthique et agro-industrie, 12–13; Badro, Martimort-Asso, andPonce Morales, “Les enjeux des droits de propriété intellectuelle sur le vivant,” 9.10. James R. Enyart, “A GATT Intellectual Property Code,” Les Nouvelles, June1990, quoted in Shiva, Éthique et agro-industrie, 12–13.11. “Globalization and Its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights,”Preliminary Report submitted by J. Oloka-Onyango and Deepika Udagama, UNSub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, June 15,2000.