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Tom Philpott, ”Researchers: GM Crops Are Killing Monarch b.u.t.terflies, After All,” Mother Jones, March 21, 2012.

569 cropland dedicated to crop varieties engineered to be tolerant of Roundup

Ned Potter, ”Are Monarch b.u.t.terflies Threatened by Genetically Modified Crops?,” ABC News, July 13, 2011, abcnews.go.com/Technology/monarch-b.u.t.terflies-genetically-modified-gm-crops/story?id=14057436#.UA2kPUQ-KF4; Philpott, ”Researchers: GM Crops Are Killing Monarch b.u.t.terflies, After All.”

570 harmful impact on at least one subspecies of monarchs

Faure and Wibisana, ”Liability for Damage Caused by GMOs.”

571 Although proponents of GM crops have minimized

Potter, ”Are Monarch b.u.t.terflies Threatened by Genetically Modified Crops?”; Monsanto, ”Frequently Asked Questions,” /hawaii/Pages/faqs-hawaii.aspx.

572 a new group of pesticides known as neonicotinoids

Elizabeth Kolbert, ”Silent Hives,” New Yorker, April 20, 2012.

573 since the affliction first appeared in 2006

Ibid.

574 ”About one mouthful in three”

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, ”Questions and Answers: Colony Collapse Disorder,” December 17, 2010, pany's design

Miriam Jordan, ”The Big War Over a Small Fruit,” Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2012.

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