http://www.metafilter.com/tags/spurt Posts tagged with 'spurt' at MetaFilter. Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:30:57 -0800 Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:30:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/1472/ <p><a href="http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/default.htm"><b>Monsanto</b></a>, the megacorp who brought you <a href="http://www.thecampaign.org/terminatorseed.htm">terminator seed</a> technology, and who is known for <a href="http://www.inetex.com/joanne/monsanto_sues_farmer_over_gen.htm">suing farmers</a> who harvest seeds from crops grown from patented Monsanto seeds, has had a busy couple of weeks. On April 4, they merged with pharmaceutical giant <a href="http://www2.pnu.com/about.asp?strVar='about'">Upjohn</a> to form meta-megacorp <a href="http://www.pharmacia.com/home.html">Pharmacia</a>. That same day, in a spurt of overactivity, they <a href="http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/mediacenter/2000/00apr4_rice.html">decoded the genetic sequence of rice.</a> <p>Uh oh. tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.1472 Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:30:57 -0800 crops farmers monsanto pharmacia seeds spurt upjohn jbushnell