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...farmers hoping for a healthy harvest, the best place to turn for help these days is the Monsanto Corp. One of the world's leading biotechnology companies--and lately a pioneer in genetically engineered seeds--Monsanto has been incorporating flashy traits like herbicide and pest resistance into everything from canola to corn. But such supercrops don't come cheap. Farmers pay a premium for Monsanto seeds, and to make sure they keep paying, the company requires them to sign an agreement promising not to plant seeds their crops produce. If farmers want the same bountiful harvest next year, they must...
While this arrangement makes sense for Monsanto, it works only if farmers honor it--something that's difficult to police in the U.S. and almost impossible in the developing world. Now, however, Monsanto hopes to enforce biologically what it can't enforce contractually. With the help of clever genes currently in development, future Monsanto crops may be designed with a new feature in mind: sterility. No sooner will the company's plants mature than the seeds they carry will lose the ability to reproduce...
...From Monsanto's point of view, the set of new genes--which others have dubbed Terminator--is a perfectly legitimate way to protect their intellectual-property rights. Not everybody agrees. And in the 10 months since the patent for the seed-sterilizing technology was issued, Terminator has become the focus of a grass-roots protest that is spreading through the Internet like, well, wildfire...
...company that, according to the EPA, leads the nation in the release of toxic chemicals into the environment is (a) Exxon (b) Borden Chemicals & Plastics (c) Monsanto (d) Magnesium Corp. of America...
...through internal bleeding. So last week, an FDA advisory panel gave the green light to Celebrex, the first of a new breed of drugs called cox-2 inhibitors that promise to deliver all the relief of today's pain killers with none of the side effects. Celebrex, made by Monsanto's G.D. Searle, is expected to get formal approval this week; arthritis patients will be the first to get prescriptions in the New Year...