At the heart of Monsanto is a very clear and principled code of conduct – one we expect all employees, contractors and management to live by every day. We operate under a genuine value system—our pledge—that demonstrates integrity, respect, ethical behavior, perspective and honesty as a foundation for everything we do. 

A key part of fulfilling the promise of our value system is by engaging our communities in a significant and positive manner.

The following articles address our past and current business practices and answer questions critics have levied against us.

	Is Monsanto Going to Develop or Sell "Terminator" Seeds? Through modern biotechnology, it may be possible to develop crops that will not produce viable offspring seeds or that will produce viable seeds with specific genes switched-off.
	Farmer Suicides in India – Is There a Connection with Bt Cotton? If you search the Internet for Monsanto, you will likely come across claims that failure of our Bollgard® cotton seed products has caused many farmers in India to take their own lives. Not everything you see or read on the Internet is fact and this is a good example.