REFERENCES
COMPANIES
Cienfuegos, Paul. The Organic Foods Movement – Led by Heinz Corporation or We the People? The Time to Choose is Now. Common Dreams, May 31, 2004.
Glover, Paul. What We Need to Know About the Corporate Takeover of the “Organic” Food Market. Also titled The Corporate Corruption of Organics–A New Web Site. Organic Consumers Association, June 2003.
Howard, Philip H. Michigan State University website includes many graphic charts of the organic food industry from 2007.
In New Marketing Tactic, Foodmakers Urge Doctors to Advocate Brands. Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2004.
Ness, Carol. Mega-Producers Tip Scales as Organic Goes Mainstream. San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 2006.
Sligh, Michael and Caroline Christman. Who Owns Organic? The Global Status, Prospects, and Challenges of a Changing Organic Market. Rural Advancement Foundation International, Pittsboro, NC, 2003.
Pollan, Michael. Behind the Organic-Industrial Complex. New York Times, May 1, 2001.
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=707
http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/02/organic-corporate-hierarchy/
GENETIC MODIFICATION
Caldwell, D. 2002. A Cotton Conundrum. Perspectives OnLine: The Magazine of the
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European Commission, 2000. Economic Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops on theAgri-food Sector. http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/gmo/cover.htm
FAO, 2004. The State of World Food and Agriculture 2004. Biotechnology: Meeting the Needs of the Poor? http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/focus/2004/41655/
Fernandez-Cornejo, J. & Caswell. April 2006. Genetically Engineered Crops in the UnitedStates. USDA/ERS Economic Information Bulletin n. 11.
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FoEI, January 2007. Who Benefits from GM crops? An analysis of the global performance of GM crops (1996-2006)
Hollis, P.L., February 15 2006. Why plant cotton’s new genetics? Southeast Farm Press.
ISAAA, 2006b. GM crops: the first ten years- Global Socio-Economic and Environmental impacts. http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/36/download/isaaa-brief-36-2006.pdf
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Ron Eliason, 2004. Stagnating National Bean Yields. 2004 Midwest Soybean
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PCB’s
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