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The world according to Monsanto : pollution, corruption, and

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INDEX 361failures, 298–300; first field trials in India,296; India <strong>and</strong> “Bollgard,” 290–306; <strong>and</strong>lectins, 191; necessity for herbicides <strong>and</strong>insecticides, 295, 303–6; <strong>and</strong> rhizoc<strong>to</strong>nia(disease), 302–3; seed prices, 298, 302;the 2003 Science article <strong>and</strong> Monsan<strong>to</strong>propag<strong>and</strong>a, 300–301Bt crops: <strong>and</strong> Bt gene, 191, 193–94, 230, 246,304; <strong>and</strong> lectins, 179–80, 182–83. Seealso Bt corn; Bt cot<strong>to</strong>n; Bt pota<strong>to</strong>es;Roundup Ready soybeans; transgenic cropsBt pota<strong>to</strong>es, 179–87, 232–33Buckingham, William, 39–41Buhk, Hans-Yorg, 324Burch, John Thomas, 59Bureau of Veterinary Drugs (BVD) (Canada),123–24Burford, Anne, 33–34Burger King, 184, 321Burroughs, Richard, 89–93, 97, 101, 116Bush, George H.W., 61, 141, 143–44Bush, George W./Bush administration, 67,162–63, 165, 189Business Ethics, 189, 190Buzzi, Eduardo, 262, 279–80Byrne, Jay, 250Cal<strong>and</strong>ra, Joseph, 22Calgene, 134, 139, 148–49, 157, 169Callis, Clay<strong>to</strong>n F., 49Camarra, Graciela, 275Campos, Miguel, 256–57, 261, 262–63, 266,268, 279–81Canada: canola exports, 224; farmers’ resistanceagainst Monsan<strong>to</strong> patents, 213–16;GM canola contamination, 214, 217–18,236–39; health effects of Roundup onfarm families, 83; <strong>and</strong> rBGH, 123–28;wheat production <strong>and</strong> campaign againsttransgenic RR wheat, 226, 235–39Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), 235Canadian House of Commons St<strong>and</strong>ing Committeeon Agriculture <strong>and</strong> Agri-Food, 235Canadian Seed Trade Association, 217Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), 226–28, 235,236, 238cancer: <strong>and</strong> dioxin, 52–53, 60–63; <strong>and</strong>glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup),79–82; <strong>and</strong> IGF-1, 101–1; <strong>and</strong> PCBs, 23;<strong>and</strong> rBGH, 100–101Cancer (journal), 61canola. See Roundup Ready canolaCapeco (Paraguay), 274, 275, 287Cargill, 195, 262, 278Carle<strong>to</strong>n University, 83Carpenter, David, 22–23, 24, 26, 67Carr, Rex, 49, 50, 52Carra<strong>to</strong>, Tom, 173Carrefour, 321Carstensen, Peter, 205–6Carter, Jimmy, 189Castellán, Luis, 268–69Center for Biological Warfare (Fort Detrick,Maryl<strong>and</strong>), 40Center for Food Safety (CFS), 153, 156–57,207–10Center for Plant Biotechnology Research atTuskegee University, 249Center for Science in the Public Interest, 157Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at theFDA: <strong>and</strong> GM foods, 154, 160; Office ofNew Animal Drug Evaluation, 92–93,105; <strong>and</strong> rBGH, 90–93, 98, 105, 109, 116Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 31,59–60, 102, 150CETOS (Center for Ethics <strong>and</strong> Toxics) inGualala, California, 172Chakrabarty, An<strong>and</strong>a Mohan, 203Chamorro, Domingo, 168Chapela, Ignacio, 89, 244, 245–52, 298Charles, Daniel, 135, 193–94, 205, 206, 208,304Charles<strong>to</strong>n Gazette, 54Chemical Warfare Service, 37Chemistry <strong>and</strong> Industry, 198Chevron-Texaco, 263Chicago Tribune, 207, 211Chinese Academy of Science, 305chloracne, 16–17, 35, 37, 50, 61chlorophenols, 45, 49Chopra, Shiv, 89, 123–28Ciagro (Argentina), 195Ciba-Geigy, 139CIMMYT (International Maize <strong>and</strong> WheatImprovement Center, Centro Internacionalde Mejoramien<strong>to</strong> de Maíz y Trigo), 308–9Clarín (Argentine daily), 258, 263, 275Clary, James, 43Clay, Don R., 55, 57Clean Air Act, 52Clemon, U.W., 28Clin<strong>to</strong>n, Bill/Clin<strong>to</strong>n administration, 163,164–67, 187–88Clophen, 3, 12. See also PCBs (polychlorinatedbiphenyls)CNN, 122CNRS (Centre Nationale de la RechercheScientifique), 79, 82Coalition for the Prevention of Cancer, 94, 117Coca-Cola, 12, 161, 189Cochran, Johnnie, 9–10, 27–28Codex Alimentarius Commission, 126–27, 169“co-evolution,” 304Cohen, Stanley, 134Cold War, 40Collier, Robert, 104, 118Colombia, 87–88Colonel, Pedro, 271–72

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