Footnotes

[1] Pub. Pluto Press (London), 1995
[2] New Delhi, India, 1998
[3] in 'Hungry for Power', pub. UK Food Group (London), 1999
[4] ed Al Krebs, http://www.ea1.com/CARP/agbiz/examiner1.html
[5] ed Brewster and Cathleen Kneen, www.ramshorn.bc.ca
[6] Wayne Broehl Jr, 1998, 'Cargill - Going global', p.376
[7] Kneen, 1995, op.cit., p.1
[8] Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, 1998, op.cit, p.6
[9] ibid, p.8
[10] Net Press (Burundi news agency), 5/9/00, 'Genetically modified US food aid suspect', recorded by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
[11] Ben Lilliston & Niel Ritchie (of Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis), July / August 2000, 'Freedom to fail', in Multinational Monitor, www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00july-aug/lilliston.html
[12] Cargill Bulletin, November 1999, 'A noble cause: Agriculture and the Seattle ministerial', www.cargill.com/today/bulletin/nov99text.htm
[13] Public Citizen, 1999, 'The Corporate Coalition behind the "Africa Growth and Opportunity Act" ', on Global Trade Watch, www.citizen.org/pctrade/Africa/1636hope/Corpcoal.htm
[14] Ernest Micek, 31/7/97, testimony before the Senate Committee on Agriculture re. The African Growth and Opportunity Act, www.senate.gov/~agriculture/Hearings/Hearings_1997/micek.htm
[15] Al Krebs, 12/11/98, 'It is plain, Cargill's reign in the grain has become profane', in Agribusiness Examiner issue 9, Corporate Agribusiness Research Project, www.ea1.com/CARP/agbiz/agex-09.html
[16] Kneen, 1995, op.cit
[17] Krebs, 12/11/98, op.cit.
[18] Kneen, 1995, op.cit
[19] Eugene Plawiuk, updated November 1998, 'Background on Cargill Inc - the transnational agribusiness giant', www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/carinc.html
[19a] Kneen, 1995, op.cit, p.69
[20] President's Export Council, 2/6/98, Minutes of the full council meeting, Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, www.ita.doc.gov/pec/060298.html A list of all members is at http://osecnt13.osec.doc.gov/public.nsf/docs/ntet-pec-members
[21] President's Export Council, website homepage, www.ita.doc.gov/td/pec/ [22] Cargill AgHorizons website, 4/2/00, 'Cargill Chairman named by Clinton to influential trade policy council', www.cargill.com/aghorizons/generalnews/chairman.htm
[23] Public Citizen, 1999, op.cit.
[24] Hoovers Handbook of Private Companies, 1998
[25] Cargill AgHorizons website, 28/1/00, 'Frank Sims named to USDA Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology' www.cargill.com/aghorizons/generalnews/franksim.htm
[26] Corporate Council on Africa website, members list, www.africacncl.org/ memberlist.htm
[27] Emergency Committee for American Trade website, http://ecat.policy.net/
[28] Ernest Micek, 16/2/00,'China's WTO accession benefits America', testimony to Ways and Means Committee, www.cargill.com/today/releases/00_2_16waysmeans2.htm
[29] ibid
[30] Plawiuk, November 1998, op.cit
[30a] Kneen, 1995, op.cit p.65
[30b] Ibid, p.66
[31] Ibid, p.178
[32] Ibid, p.25
[33] Mother Jones, Jan / Feb 1993, 'Toxic Ten', by David Weir and Priscilla Yamin, www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF93/weir.html
[34] Jim Cullen, May 1996, 'Shut down chicken racketeering' in Progressive Populist, Vol. 2, No. 5, www.populist.com/5.96.Edit.html; Multinational Monitor , 9/8/1998 'Chicken Swindlers' www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/issues/1992/05/mm0592_12.html
[35] Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, 1998, op.cit.
[36] The Ag biz Tiller, 3/4/97, 'CARGILL: Dredging Up the Profits', http://home.earthlink.net/~avkrebs/CARP/archive.html
[37] Brewster Kneen, 'TNCs Sail On WTO or Not', The Ram's Horn #176, January 2000, www.ramshorn.bc.ca/176.html
[38] Kneen, 1995, op.cit, p.188
[39] Kneen, 1995, op.cit, pp.199-201
[40] Hoovers Online, 'Hoovers 500', www.hoovers.com/top500/0,2437,3,00.html
[41] Forbes Magazine, 2000, 'Forbes 500 Top Private Companies', www.forbes.com/private500/
[42] Based on food and drink sales: Prepared Foods magazine, July 1999, http://www.preparedfoods.com/archives/1999/9907/9907private40.htm
[43] Hoovers company profile, April 2000
[44] Hoovers Online company capsule, www.hoovers.com/co/capsule/9/0,2163,40079,00.html
[45] Hoovers company profile, November 2000
[46] Hoovers Online company capsule, www.hoovers.com/co/capsule/9/0,2163,40079,00.html
[47] Cargill Technical Services website - typical projects, www.cargill-tech-serv.com/projects.html
[48] Kneen, 1998, op.cit, or 'Bird-watching Cargill', in the Ram's Horn no.184
[49] Agribrands International news release, 4/12/00, 'Agribrands International Inc agrees to acquisition by Cargill', www.agribrands.ca/Corporate/Press/Anncmnt_Merger.htm
[50] Hoovers Online company capsule, www.hoovers.com/co/capsule/9/0,2163,40079,00.html; and Hoovers company profile, 4/00
[51] Plawiuk, November 1998, op.cit.
[52] Cargill website, 2000, 'Corporate officers and elected officers', www.cargill.com/about/manage.htm
[53] Cargill press release, 8/8/00, 'Warren Staley named Cargill chairman', www.cargill.com/today/releases/00_8_8board.htm
[54] Hoovers Handbook of Private Companies, 1998
[55] Cargill press release, 28/2/00, 'Medtronic's Collins elected to Cargill's board of directors', www.cargill.com/today/releases/00_02_28collins.htm
[56] Cargill website, 2000, 'Corporate officers and elected officers', www.cargill.com/about/manage.htm
[57] Cargill Inc website - country page, UK, www.cargill.com/prodserv/country/uk.htm
[58] 'UK Food and Drink Industry', ed. John Strak & Wyn Morgan, pub. EuroPA & Associates
[59] Ms Guttridge (Commercial Director, Grain, Feed & Oilseeds), Cargill plc, Nov '99, cross-examined by Commons Agriculture Select Committee, www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmagric/71/9113013.htm
[60] Directory of Importers 1998/99
[61] Guttridge, op city
[62] Directory of Importers 1998/99
[63] Key British Enterprises (pub. Dun & Bradstreet), 1999
[64] Cargill plc, Nov '99, cross-examined by Commons Agriculture Select Committee, www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmagric/71/9113013.htm
[65] ibid
[66] Conference programme, 'Dispute resolution in the WTO', 14/6/96 organised by Cameron May, http://csf.colorado.edu/lists/itcp/1996/0226.html
[67] Cargill website, media contacts, www.cargill.com/today/medialin.htm
[68] Key British Enterprises 1999
[69] Key British Enterprises1999
[70] Public Relations Consultancy Association, 1999, PRCA Yearbook
This briefing is a supplement to the Corporate Watch report 'Control freaks - the GMO exporters', which analyses the roles of Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland and their competitors in the supply chain for genetically-modified crops and food.

Other briefings in this series include:

• Who's winning the biotech battle? - a strategic overview of the industry in light of public rejection, showing that the war is still far from won, and suggesting some further campaign directions. (due early 2001)
• The industry strikes back: functional foods, good for Monsanto's health - how biotech companies plan to win the GMO debate, and to succeed inselling GM foods in large quantities. (May 2000)
• Aventis - a post-merger update of our briefing on AgrEvo, the company leading the field in UK biotech, and responsible for farm-scale trials. (April 2000)
• Cash cows and bull markets? The finance behind GM food and crops - a detailed guide on which banks and other financial institutions are propping up the industry. (March 2000)
• From test tube to tummy: the GMO supply chain - a guide to which companies and organisations do what throughout the supply chain. (January 2000)
• Animal feeds and genetic engineering - on the companies involved in this key market for GMOs. (October 1999)

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