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  39. Gary Ruskin, in conversation with the author, January 2017.

  40. New York Times, DocumentCloud, 2303691-kevin-folta-uoffloridadocs, p. 168, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2303691-kevin-folta-uoffloridadocs.html#document/p84/a237719.

  41. Monsanto Company, e-mails to Kevin Folta, January 2012, catalogued by Mother Jones, https://www.motherjones.com/files/webmd.pdf.

  42. Anna Lappé, “Big Food Uses Mommy Bloggers to Shape Public Opinion,” Al Jazeera America, August 1, 2014, http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/food-agriculturemonsantogmoadvertising.html.

  43. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, In Re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation, Case No. 3:16-md-02741-VC, Document 246-2, filed April 20, 2017, p. 2, https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGomotion.pdf.

  44. Vani Hari, “The Unethical Tactics of the Chemical Industry to Silence the Truth,” Food Babe (blog), October 6, 2016, http://foodbabe.com/2016/10/06/the-unethical-tactics-of-the-chemical-industry-to-silence-the-truth/.

  45. Vani Hari, in conversation with the author, October 2016.

  46. Andy Kroll and Jeremy Schulman, “Leaked Documents Reveal the Secret Finances of a Pro-Industry Science Group,” Mother Jones, October 28, 2013, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising.

  47. Alex Berezow, “Glyphosate: A Slow But Steady Vindication,” American Council on Science and Health, September 30, 2016, http://acsh.org/news/2016/09/30/glyphosate-slow-steady-vindication-10239.

  48. Alex Berezow, “Glyphosate: NYT’s Danny Hakim Is Lying to You,” American Council on Science and Health, March 15, 2017, http://www.acsh.org/news/2017/03/15/glyphosate-nyts-danny-hakim-lying-you-11001.

  49. Kim McGuire, “Museum of Natural Science Cancels Controversial Scientist’s Lecture,” Houston Chronicle, March 29, 2016, http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Museum-of-Natural-Science-cancels-controversial-7216299.php.

  50. American Chemistry Council, Campaign for Accuracy in Public Health Research, January 2017, http://campaignforaccuracyinpublichealthresearch.com/about/.

  51. Michele Simon, “Best Public Relations Money Can Buy—A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups,” Huffington Post, May 16, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-simon/best-public-relations-mon_b_3273159.html.

  52. Nancy L. Swanson, “Glyphosate Re-assessment in Europe Is Corrupt: Toxicology,” July 2014, https://www.academia.edu/7595699/Glyphosate_reassessment_in_Europe_is_corrupt_Toxicology.

  53. Frederick vom Saal et al., “Response to Glyphosate IARC Attack No, California, Roundup Won’t Give You Cancer—LA Times 4-28-17,” https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Response-to-Kelly-and-Miller-LA-Times-Glyphosate-4-28-17-FVS-NOTES-bb2-F…-1-3.pdf.

  Chapter 7: A Poisoned Paradise

  1. Virginia A. Rauh et al., “Brain Anomalies in Children Exposed Prenatally to a Common Organophosphate Pesticide,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 20 (April 20, 2012): 7871–7876, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203396109.

  2. Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, “Neurobehavioral Effects of Developmental Toxicity,” Lancet Neurology 13, no. 3 (March 2014): 330–338, doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(13)70278-3.

  3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Chlorpyrifos: Revised Human Health Risk Assessment for Registration Review,” November 3, 2016, https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0653-0454.

  4. State of Hawaii Department of Agriculture, “Summary of Restricted Use Pesticides Sold in 2014,” http://hdoa.hawaii.gov/pi/files/2015/04/SUMMARY-ALLSALES-2014.pdf.

  5. Bernard Riola, Surachat Chatkupt, Kupono Chong-Hanssen, and Jim Raelson (physicians), letter to Kauai County Council, July 29, 2013, https://www.stoppoisoningparadise.org/doctors-and-nurses-letters-to-mayor.

  6. Qing X. Li, Jun Wang, and Robert Boesch, University of Hawaii Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, “Final Project Report for Kauai Air Sampling Study,” March 15, 2013, http://hdoa.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Waimea-Canyon-Air-Study.pdf.

  7. Paul Koberstein, “The Kauai Cocktail,” Cascadia Times, June 16, 2014, http://times.org/2014/06/16/kauai-cocktail/.

  8. Lee Evslin, in conversation with the author, October 2016.

  9. Peter S. Adler and Keith Mattson, letter to Scott Enright and Bernard P. Carvalho Jr., May 25, 2016, http://www.accord3.com/docs/GM-Pesticides/report/JFF%20Kauai%20Transmittal%20Letter.pdf.

  10. Adam Asquith et al., “Pesticide Use By Large Agribusinesses on Kaua‘i: Findings and Recommendations of the Joint Fact Finding Study Group,” May 25, 2016, https://jffkauai.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/jff-kauai-final-report1.pdf.

  11. Pat Gegen et al., petition letter to Libby Vianu and Robert Knowles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Region 9), October 10, 2014, https://goo.gl/ofRBmE.

  12. Ileana Arias (director, Division of Community Health Investigations, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), letter to Pat Gegen, August 15, 2016, https://goo.gl/rR9aoZ.

  13. “Monsanto Sues Hawaii County over GMO Ban,” RT, November 14, 2014, https://www.rt.com/usa/205655-monsanto-dow-gmo-hawaii/.

  14. Andrew Pollack, “Unease in Hawaii’s Cornfields,” New York Times, October 7, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/fight-over-genetically-altered-crops-flares-in-hawaii.html?_r=1.

  15. Hawaii State Department of Health and Hawaii Department of Agriculture, “2013–14 State Wide Pesticide Sampling Pilot Project: Presentation of Preliminary Findings to the 2014 2nd Annual Joint Government Water Quality Conference, Wailuki, Maui, August 12, 2014,” http://health.hawaii.gov/sdwb/files/2014/09/03.Maui-WQP-Pesticide-Presentation.pdf.

  16. “Pesticide Ban to Be Considered in Hawaii County,” Big Island Video News, July 31, 2015, http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2015/07/31/pesticide-ban-to-be-considered-in-hawaii-county/.

  17. Keoki Kerr, “Pro-GMO Companies Spend $8 Million to Fight Maui Initiative,” Hawaii News Now, October 28, 2014.

  18. Gary Hooser, in conversation with the author, October 2016.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Paul Achitoff, in conversation with the author, November 2016.

  21. Sadie Costello et al., “Parkinson’s Disease and Residential Exposure to Maneb and Paraquat from Agricultural Applications in the Central Valley of California,” American Journal of Epidemiology 169, no. 8 (April 15, 2009): 919–926, doi:10.1093/aje/kwp006.

  22. Paul Achitoff (Earthjustice), letter to Gina McCarthy (EPA administrator), August 4, 2016, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pJR4cGo9ckVVZ2cE9WMlVKZEk/view?usp=sharing.

  23. Paul Achitoff (Earthjustice), letter to Lilian Dorka (EPA acting director, Office of Civil Rights) and Daria Neal (U.S. Department of Justice deputy chief, Civil Rights Division), September 14, 2016, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pJR4cGo9ckSi1BT1JTRUZsbU0/view?usp=sharing.

  24. Paul Achitoff, in conversation with the author, November 2016.

  25. Peter Adler, in conversation with the author, November 2016.

  Chapter 8: Angst in Argentina

  1. National University of Córdoba, Argentina, Faculty of Medical Sciences, “Report of 1st National Meeting of Physicians of Fumigated Villages,” October 22, 2010, http://reduas.com.ar/informe-encuentro-medicos-pueblos-fumigados/.

  2. Video interview with Sofia Gatica, 2012 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, South and Central America, http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/sofia-gatica/.

  3. Lucia Graves, “Sofia Gatica, Argentine Activist, Faced Anonymous Death Threats for Fighting Monsanto Herbicide,” Huffington Post, May 3, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/argentine-activist-sofia-gatica-monsanto_n_1475659.html.

  4. National University of Córdoba, Argentina, Faculty of Medical Sciences, “Report of 1st National Meeting of Physicians of Fumigated Villages,” October 22, 2010, http://reduas.com.ar/informe-
encuentro-medicos-pueblos-fumigados/.

  5. Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko, “Argentines Link Health Problems to Agrochemicals,” Associated Press, October 20, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/argentines-link-health-problems-agrochemicals-2.

  6. National University of Rosario, Argentina, Faculty of Medical Sciences, “Declaration of 2nd Meeting of Physicians of Sprayed and Fumigated Towns and Villages,” July 5, 2011, http://reduas.com.ar/declaration-of-2nd-meeting-of-physicians-of-sprayed-and-fumigated-towns-and-villages/.

  7. University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine, “Declaration of the 3rd National Congress of Physicians of Fumigated Peoples,” November 24, 2015, http://reduas.com.ar/declaracion-del-3o-congreso-nacional-de-medicos-de-pueblos-fumigados/.

  8. Elizabeth Grossman, “A Town Demands Protection from Pesticides,” National Geographic, February 23, 2016, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160223-photograph-aixa-argentina-avia-terai-pesticides-glyphosate/.

  9. Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko, “Argentines Link Health Problems to Agrochemicals,” Associated Press, October 20, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/argentines-link-health-problems-agrochemicals-2.

  10. Alejandra Paganelli et al., “Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Produce Teratogenic Effects on Vertebrates by Impairing Retinoic Acid Signaling,” Chemical Research in Toxicology 23, no. 10 (August 9, 2010): 1586–1595, doi:10.1021/tx1001749 (full study can be viewed at http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/carrasco_0.pdf).

  11. Lucia Graves, “Roundup: Birth Defects Caused by World’s Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say,” Huffington Post, June 24, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/roundup-scientists-birth-defects_n_883578.html.

  12. Michael Antoniou et al., “GM Soy: Sustainable? Responsible?” GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG, September 2010, http://www.gmwatch.org/files/GMsoy_SustainableResponsible_Sept2010.pdf.

  13. Monsanto Company, “Argentina and Pesticides,” Beyond the Rows (blog), http://monsantoblog.com/2013/10/21/argentina-and-pesticides/.

  14. Donna Farmer, “Frequently Asked Questions about Glyphosate,” GMO Answers, p. 7, https://gmoanswers.com/sites/default/files/glyphosate-and-GMOs_FrequentlyAskedQuestions_Booklet.pdf.

  15. Ezequiel Adamovsky, “Andres Carrasco vs Monsanto,” teleSUR, October 1, 2014, http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Andres-Carrasco-vs-Monsanto-20141001-0090.html.

  16. “Andres Carrasco Dies; Argentine Neuroscientist Showed Monsanto’s Glyphosate Damages Embryos,” Associated Press, May 10, 2014, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/05/10/andres-carrasco-dies-argentine-neuroscientist-showed-monsanto-glyphosate.html.

  17. Javier Souza, in conversation with the author, November 2016.

  18. Antonio Emilio Hupan, et al. v. Monsanto Company, et al., Case No. N12C-02-171-VLM in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, January 29, 2016, http://www.aboutlawsuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-1-29-roundup-birthdefects-complaint.pdf.

  19. Antonio Emilio Hupan, et al., v. Alliance One International, Inc., et al.; Case No. N12C-02-171-VLM in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for New Castle County, November 30, 2015, http://cases.justia.com/delaware/superior-court/2015-n12c-02-171.pdf?ts=1449162058.

  20. “Glyphosate Herbicide, a Catalyst for Argentine Politics,” diplomatic cable, May 7, 2009.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Connie Veillette and Carolina Navarrette-Frias, “Drug Crop Eradication and Alternative Development in the Andes,” Congressional Research Service Report RL33163, November 18, 2005, https://file.wikileaks.org/file/crs/RL33163.pdf.

  23. “Glyphosate Takes Another Hit in Ecuador,” diplomatic cable, July 9, 2007, https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07QUITO1553_a.html.

  24. Pablo Jaramillo Viteri and Chris Kraul, “Colombia to Pay Ecuador $15 Million to Settle Coca Herbicide Suit,” Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2013, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/16/world/la-fg-wn-ecuador-colombia-coca-herbicide-lawsuit-20130916.

  25. Carey Gillam, “U.S. Tax Dollars Promote Monsanto’s GMO Crops Overseas: Report,” Reuters, May 14, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gmo-report-idUSBRE94D0IL20130514.

  26. Food & Water Watch, “Biotech Ambassadors: How the U.S. State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global Agenda,” May 2013, http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/biotech-ambassadors.

  27. Pamm Larry, in conversation with the author, November 2016.

  28. Evan Abramson, “Soy: A Hunger for Land,” NACLA Report on the Americas, May 2009, https://nacla.org/soyparaguay.

  29. Judy Hatcher, in conversation with the author, November 2016.

  Chapter 9: Uproar in Europe

  1. European Parliament, “Glyphosate: Authorise for Just Seven Years and Professional Uses Only, Urge MEPs,” press release, April 13, 2016, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20160407IPR21781/glyphosate-authorise-for-just-seven-years-and-professional-uses-only-urge-meps.

  2. United Nations General Assembly, “Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June 1992),” August 12, 1992, http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm/.

  3. Steve Suppan, “Backgrounder on WTO Dispute: U.S. vs. EC Biotech Products Case,” Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, September 2005, http://www.iatp.org/files/451_2_76644.pdf.

  4. “GM Crops ‘Won’t Solve Hunger,’” CNN, May 28, 2003, http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/05/28/gmcrops/index.html?_s=PM:TECH.

  5. Robin Mesnage et al., “Glyphosate Exposure in a Farmer’s Family,” Journal of Environmental Protection 3 (September 2012): 1001–1003, doi:10.4236/jep.2012.39115.

  6. Jim Manson, “Soil Association Calls for UK Glyphosate Ban,” Natural Products News, July 15, 2015, http://www.naturalproductsonline.co.uk/soil-association-calls-for-uk-glyphosate-ban/.

  7. Green Party, “Green Party MEPs Peed Off with Glyphosate Test Results,” press release, May 13, 2016, https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2016/05/13/green-party-meps-peed-off-with-glyphosate-test-results/.

  8. Oscar Schneider, “Increased Glyphosate Concentrations in Urine of MEPs,” Brussels Times, May 13, 2016, http://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/5600/increased-glyphosate-concentrations-in-urine-of-meps.

  9. Nicole Sagener, “Overwhelming Majority of Germans Contaminated by Glyphosate,” EURACTIV Network, March 6, 2016, https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/overwhelming-majority-of-germans-contaminated-by-glyphosate/.

  10. Umwelt Bundesamt, “Plant Protection: Less Is Best and Lower-Risk,” press release, January 22, 2016, https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/press/pressinformation/plant-protection-less-is-best-lower-risk.

  11. Nicole Sagener, “Overwhelming Majority of Germans Contaminated by Glyphosate,” EURACTIV Network, March 6, 2016, https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/overwhelming-majority-of-germans-contaminated-by-glyphosate/.

  12. Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, “Glyphosate in the Urine: Even for Children, the Detected Values Are Within the Expected Range, without Any Adverse Health Effects,” press release, April 3, 2016, http://www.bfr.bund.de/en/press_information/2016/11/glyphosate_in_the_urine__even_for_children__the_detected_values_are_within_the_expected_range__without_any_adverse_health_effects-197173.html.

  13. Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, “More Transparency on Glyphosate: BfR Supports the Release by EFSA of Raw Scientific Data,” September 30, 2016, http://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/349/more-transparency-on-glyphosate-bfr-supports-the-release-by-efsa-of-raw-scientific-data.pdf.

  14. European Food Safety Authority, “Conclusion on the Peer Review of the Pesticide Risk Assessment of the Active Substance Glyphosate,” EFSA Journal 13, no. 11 (2015): 4302, doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2015.4302, https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4302.

  15. European Food Safety Authority, “Glyphosate: EFSA Updates Toxicological Profile,” press release, November 12, 2105, https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/151112.

  16. Arthur Neslen, “EU Declared Monsanto Weedkiller Saf
e After Intervention from Controversial US Official,” The Guardian, May 24, 2017, https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/24/eu-declared-monsanto-weedkiller-safe-after-intervention-from-controversial-us-official.

  17. Daniel J. Jenkins (Monsanto), e-mail to Tracey L. Reynolds (Monsanto), September 3, 2015, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pJR4cGo9ckSEtrNEE4OHpwb3c/view.

  18. GTF—Glyphosate Task Force website, http://www.glyphosatetaskforce.org/.

  19. Greenpeace European Unit, “EU Whitewash on Cancer Risk from World’s Most Used Weedkiller,” press release, November 12, 2015, http://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/en/News/2015/EU-whitewash-on-cancer-risk-from-worlds-most-used-weedkiller/.

  20. Jennifer Sass, “Glyphosate: IARC Got It Right, EFSA Got It from Monsanto,” Natural Resources Defense Council Expert Blog, November 30, 2015, https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jennifer-sass/glyphosate-iarc-got-it-right-efsa-got-it-monsanto.

  21. Christopher J. Portier et al., letter to Vytenis Andriukaitis (European Commission) titled “Open Letter: Review of the Carcinogenicity of Glyphosate by EFSA and BfR,” November 27, 2015, http://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2015-11/glyphosat-offener-brief.pdf.

  22. Ibid.

  23. European Parliament, “EU’s Pesticide Risk Assessment System: The Case of Glyphosate,” Study for the ENVI Committee, May 24, 2016, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/587309/IPOL_STU(2016)587309_EN.pdf.

  24. Monsanto Company, Public Access to Document Team, letter to European Food Safety Authority, February 4, 2016, https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/efsa_ref._15866348_pad_2016_046_disclosure_enclosure.pdf.

  25. European Food Safety Authority, “Glyphosate: EFSA Shares Raw Data from Risk Assessment,” press release, December 9, 2016, https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/161209.

  26. Arthur Neslen, “UN/WHO Panel in Conflict of Interest Row over Glyphosate Cancer Risk,” The Guardian, May 17, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/17/unwho-panel-in-conflict-of-interest-row-over-glyphosates-cancer-risk.

 

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