The world according to Monsanto : pollution, corruption, and

362 indexCommercial Fisheries Bureau of the U.S.Interior Department, 21Commission d’étude de la toxicité des produitsantiparasitaires à usage agricole, 78–79Commission du Génie Biomoléculaire (CGB),322–25Community against Pollution (Anniston,Alabama), 10, 14Community Media Trust (Andhra Pradesh), 318con A (concanavalin A), 182Conabia (National Advisory Commission onAgricultural Biotechnology) (Argentina),258, 259Conamuri (Coordinadora Nacional de Organizacionesde Mujeres Trabajadoras Ruralese Indígena) (Paraguay), 274, 283Conn, Cary, 37Consejo Nacional de Coordinación de PolíticasSociales (Argentina), 267Consultative Group on International AgriculturalResearch (CGIAR), 197Consumer Fraud and Protection Bureau ofNew York, 73–74Consumer Policy Institute, 97, 105, 110, 127Consumers Union, 97, 105–6, 142, 147, 201contamination, transgenic, 207, 213–18, 219,227, 236–39, 243–55, 327–28; andbiodiversity, 231, 239; canola, 207, 214,216–18, 219, 236–39; corn, 243–55; and“volunteers,” 207, 218, 227; wheat, 227,236–39Conyers, John, 96–97Cook, Ken, 15–16, 19–20, 26, 28, 75Core, Al, 115corn. See Bt cornCorn States Hybrid Services, 195Cornell University, 91, 98, 110, 140, 229–31,305corporations and status as “persons” in U.S.law, 28Cosmo-Flux 411F, 88Cosmo-InD, 88cotton. See Bt cottonCouncil for Biotechnology Information, 165Council of Canadians, 227Council on Scientific Affairs (AMA), 101Courtney, Diane, 44Cox, Caroline, 73Craven, Neil, 103Craven Laboratories, 72–73Crawford, Leslie, 111–12Crick, Francis, 132CRII-GEN (Committee for IndependentResearch and Information on GeneticEngineering), 83, 323, 325Cristaldo, Angel, 284–85Crockett, Joe, 20–21Cummins, Joe, 82Custom Farm Seed, 195Daily Mail, 187Daily Record (Scotland), 182Daily Telegraph, 185, 198Dairy and Food Market Analyst, 116Dairy Coalition, 117–18, 120Danisco, 324Daschle, Tom, 43, 60Daucet, Jean, 168Le Dauphiné libéré, 23DDT, 3, 19, 38–39, 40, 76–77de la Rúa, Fernando, 261de Vilmorin, Louis, 136Dean Foods, 116Deccan Development Society (DDS), 298–300Declaration of Support for AgriculturalBiotechnology, 249DeKalb Genetics, 195, 278Delaney, James, 90“Delaney amendment,” 90, 100Delta and Pine Land Company, 196, 197Department of Veterans Affairs, 59, 61deregulation, 141–42Derwinski, Edward J., 43, 59Diamond Shamrock, 44Diem, Ngo Dinh, 41, 42Diouf, Jacques, 301dioxin, 3, 30–47, 48–68; birth defects andgenetic deformities, 63–68; and cancer,52–53, 61–63; and chloracne, 16–17, 35,37, 50, 61; effects of Agent Orange onveterans, 42–45, 59–60, 61, 67–68; andEPA, 31–33, 51–61; epidemiologicalstudies, 50–51, 52, 54–58, 61–63; Greenpeacereport (1990), 45–46, 50; andherbicide 2,4,5-T, 31, 35–45, 50–51,60–61; and Kemner v. Monsanto, 36–37,45–47, 48–51; military use, 37–45, 60;and Monsanto’s falsified scientific studies,48–51; and Nitro factory accident, 36–37,46, 51; origins of, 35–37; and the “Sevesocatastrophe,” 35, 45; Times Beach contamination,30–35; and whistle-blowers,51–57. See also PCBs (polychlorinatedbiphenyls)DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), 132Doll, John, 203–4Doll, Richard, 63Dow Chemical, 39, 44, 328Drinker, Cecil K., 16Druker, Steven, 153, 159–60Duarte, Nicanor, 283Duffy, Michael, 223Duhalde, Eduardo, 261DuPont, 38, 139, 200, 314, 324Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, 87East Bay Express, 246–47Eau et Rivières de Bretagne, 74–75The Ecologist, 38, 199, 251