Monsanto receives two awards

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1.Press Release Source: Monsanto Company 

Monsanto Company Recognized as 'Best Multinational Company' in First 
International Business Awards (SM)
Friday March 5, 11:53 am ET 

ST. LOUIS, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Monsanto Company has been named 
"Best Multinational Company" in the first International Business Awards(SM) 
competition. The International Business Awards are the first global, 
all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in the workplace. 
The company will receive a 2004 "Stevie(TM)" Award at a ceremony on March 22 in 
New York City.

The international awards, nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word "crowned," 
will honor companies who exhibit excellence in leadership, innovation, 
teamwork and integrity, surpassing industry standards. The awards committee chose to 
honor Monsanto for projects that demonstrate the company's Monsanto Pledge 
principles at work from the development of new technologies to improve food 
production, to transparency of scientific data, to charitable contributions and 
sharing of technology for humanitarian applications globally.

Complete lists of international Stevie winners and other award details are 
available at www.stevieawards.com/iba .

Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON - News) is a leading global provider of 
technology- based solutions and agricultural products that improve farm productivity 
and food quality. For more information on Monsanto, see: www.monsanto.com .
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2.GM WATCH's "Pants on Fire!" Awards 

PANTS ON FIRE HOT SHOTS OF 2002

Over the last 2 years we have heard ad nauseam about the NEW Monsanto 
Corporation and its Pledge to integrity, transparency and respect. We were told the 
Pledge meant that, "We will act with integrity, courage, respect, candor, 
honesty, humility, and consistency," and that, "The Respect element of the new 
Pledge goes to the heart of virtually everything that everyone at Monsanto does on 
a daily basis". 

In late 2002 an article in The Guardian revealed that "Andura Smetacek" - the 
principal "anonymous" e-mail attacker behind the campaign of character 
asssination against Berkeley scientist Ignacio Chapela over his Mexican maize 
research - had operated off an Internet Protocol address belonging to the Monsanto 
Corporation. "Smetacek" had posted around 50 such attacks on scientific and 
other critics of Monsanto - all of them during the period of the Pledge! ... 
"Andura Smetacek" was no lone assassin but part of a coporate communications 
strategy operating from Saint Louis to Johannesburg, from Manila to New Delhi. In 
short, throughout the period of the Pledge the company's corporate 
communicators have been engaged in a relentless dirty tricks campaign, often in 
association with its PR firm The Bivings Group.

Find out more: 

The Covert Biotech War 
http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit07.html 
Amaizing disgrace 
http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit2.html 
Our commitment: Respect 
http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/our_commitments/respect.asp 

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