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372 indexU.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): andGM crop exports, 224; and GMO regulatorypolicy, 142, 144, 146, 232; andrBGH, 107, 110; revolving door system,107, 164–67U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,97, 104U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 203, 316U.S. Public Health Service, 24U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC), 297U.S. Supreme Court, 67, 202–3, 211U.S. Wheat Associates, 228Van Acker, René, 238–39Van Heel, Melvin, 115Vanclief, Lyle, 238–39Veillerette, François, 76Venneman, Ann, 163Verakis, Dan, 184Verbitsky, Horacio, 266–67Verfaillie, Hendrik, 200, 235, 326Vermont Public Interest Research Group, 102Vernet, Daniel, 277Veterans Administration, 59Veterinary Products Committee of the BritishMinistry of Agriculture, Fisheries, andFood, 103Veterinary Record, 104Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS), 291Vietnam Association of Agent Orange Victims,67–68Vietnam Veterans Association, 62Vietnam Veterans of America, 42Vietnam War: Operation Ranch Hand andAgent Orange, 39–43, 60; veterans andeffects of dioxin, 42–45, 59–60, 61,67–68; Vietnamese populations andeffects of dioxin, 63–68Vital Health Publishing, 173Wales, 29Wall Street Journal, 48, 196Wallace, Henry, 193, 308Wal-Mart, 116, 321Warner Communications, 314Washington Post, 26, 59, 199, 208, 224, 232,298, 301Washington University in St. Louis, 133, 252Watkins, Michael, 200Watrud, Lidia, 164Watson, James, 132Webster, Daniel, 119Weinstein, Jack, 47, 68West, John, 56Western Organization of Resource Councils,227–28Western Producer, 217Westfall, Don, 243W.G. Krummrich plant (Sauget, Illinois),16–17, 49Wheat: Chronicle of a Death Foretold? (Artedocumentary), 2wheat, transgenic. See Roundup Ready wheatwheat production and original green revolution,308–10Whelan, Eugene, 125, 127–28whistle-blowers: Chapela and contamination ofMexican criollo corn, 252; CVM employees,105–6; and dioxin, 51–57; and FCClaw, 121–22; and Health Canada, 123–28;investigative reporters Akre and Wilson,118–22; and rBGH, 89–93, 105–6,118–22, 123–28Wichtrich, John, 235Wilcox, John, 319Wilkinson, Mike, 219Williams, Alan, 183–84Williams, Jeffrey, 13Williams, Russell “Tombstone,” 14Williams and Connolly (law firm), 121Wilson, Steve, 89, 118–22Wisconsin Farmers Union, 115Wisner, Robert, 228The World According to Monsanto (Arte documentary),3World Food Summit (November 1996), 165World Health Organization (WHO): andglyphosate herbicide, 79; and the ILSI,161; and the JECFA, 126; and revolvingdoor, 164; WHO/FAO consultations onGMOs (1990 and 1996), 169–70, 171;workshop on GMO food safety (1994), 170World In Action (ITV documentary), 178,181–82World Trade Organization (WTO): foundingdocument and “trade-related” sectors,313–14; and GATT, 313–17; intellectualproperty rights issue, 311, 313–17; Seattlesummit (1999) and global agriculture,229, 315; and seed patents, 315–17; andTRIPS agreement, 311, 314–17World War I, 38World War II, 38–39, 40W.R. Grace, 295, 311Wright, Paul, 22, 72Wright, Susan, 135Yerxa, Rufus, 164“yield drag,” 221–23Yoon, Carol, 231Young, Frank, 94Zack, Judith, 50–51Zilberman, David, 300, 301Zumwalt, Elmo R., III, 43Zumwalt, Elmo R., Jr., 43, 56, 59–61Zyklon B, 38