The world according to Monsanto : pollution, corruption, and

INDEX 369President’s Advisory Committee for TradePolicy and Negotiations, 187President’s Council on Competitiveness, 159,169Pribyl, Louis, 154–55Prince of Wales, 198“principle of substantial equivalence,” 146–52,153, 156, 159, 169–76prions, 192, 229Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences, 252Procter and Gamble, 161Promar International, 243Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’Rights Act (India), 302Pryme, Ian, 174–76Puigdomenech, Pere, 324“Pure Food Campaign,” 106Pusztai, Arpad, 89, 178–87, 198–99, 325Pydraul 150, 18Pyralène, 3, 12. See also PCBs (polychlorinatedbiphenyls)Qaim, Matin, 300, 301, 302–3Qayum, Abdul, 298–300, 303, 306Quayle, Dan, 144Queeny, John Francis, 11–12Quist, David, 244, 246–47, 251Quynh, Hoang Trong, 66–67Rallis (India), 195Ralph, Ken, 210Rampton, Sheldon, 76Ramsay, Jonathan, 198Reagan administration, 34, 141–42, 287–88recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST)/recombinantbovine growth hormone (rBGH). Seebovine growth hormone (rBGH)Red Fife wheat, 226, 236–37Reddy, Raghuveera, 300, 302Reidhead, Paris, 100–101Reilly, William, 54Relyea, Rick, 86Research Foundation for Science, Technologyand Ecology (New Delhi), 296Resource Conservation and Recovery Act(RCRA), 53Resources for the Future (RFF), 107Reutershan, Paul, 45, 47revolving door system, 73, 105, 106–7, 161–67Rhône-Poulenc, 38, 139, 232rice, 311–12, 326, 327–28RiceTec, 311Rifkin, Jeremy, 106, 107, 147, 159Rockefeller Foundation, 197, 308, 326Rockwell International, 314Rodrigues, Roberto, 277Rogers, Stephen, 135, 143–44, 187Rollins, Scott, 34Roosevelt, Franklin D., 90Rorer (company), 232Rosenberg, Marc, 234Roundup herbicide, 4, 69–88; and biodegradation,75, 81; Brazilian production, 278; anddevelopment of GMOs, 82–83; earlyadvertising and publicity campaigns,69–71, 73–75; and endocrine disruption,84, 266; environmental and health consequencesof spraying, 266, 268–69; andhistory of pesticides and industrial agriculture,76–79; and lower yields, 221–23,260; problems with Roundup Ready crops,218–23, 260, 263–65; and resistant weeds,218–21, 263–65; studies of health effects,71–73, 79–86; suicides and accidentalpoisonings, 86–87. See also RoundupReady canola; Roundup Ready soybeansRoundup Ready canola, 207, 214, 216–18,219, 236–39Roundup Ready soybeans, 2, 70, 131; andArgentina, 256–72; and Brazil, 257,276–78; and “gene guns,” 140–41; inventionof, 138–41; and isoflavones, 171–73;and lower yields, 221–23, 260; and Monsanto’scollection of royalties, 279–81; andParaguay, 273–76, 279, 281–86, 287;pollution and public health problems,273–75; and the principle of substantialequivalence, 147, 171–76; and seedpatents, 192–96, 204–6, 209–11, 280;and “technology use agreements” (contracts),205–6, 209–11; toxicology studiesand food safety, 171–77, 179; weed resistanceproblem, 263–65Roundup Ready wheat, 225–39; and crosscontamination,227, 236–39; foreignconsumers, 227–28; North Americancampaign against, 225–28, 235–36; andRed Fife wheat, 226, 236–37; and theStarlink debacle, 232–35Roundup Ultra, 88Roush, George, 46, 51Roush, Troy, 211–13Roussel-Uclaf, 232Rowett Research Institute (Aberdeen, Scotland),178, 179–83, 186–87Royal Society, 185–86royalties, collection of, 278–81Ruckelshaus, William, 34, 57, 164Ruiz Ortiz, Ulises, 243–44Rulis, Alan, 233Rumsfeld, Donald, 163, 189Runyon, David, 212–13Rural Advancement Foundation (RAFI), 196–97saccharin, 12, 38Sainsbury, 184Sakkhari, Kiran, 298–300, 302–3, 306