It involves two companies -- Bayer, a massive German pharmaceutical company known partly for producing the drug aspirin, and Monsanto, a massive American agricultural biotechnology company.

它涉及两家公司——拜耳，一家以生产药物阿司匹林而闻名的大型德国制药公司， 以及一家大型美国农业生物技术公司孟山都。