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Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 217 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bayer. They knowingly sold HIV infected blood to Latin America after the blood was rejected in Europe. This still blows my mind. Some corporate waste of oxygen actually decided to do this. It wasn't an accident. That guy needs to get stabbed with ~~thousands~~ ten fucking thousand ~~of~~ AIDS needles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

The fuck man

[-] CorInABox@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

And the Essure permanent birth control device, causing persistent pain, bleeding and other health problems to thousands of women. Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/the-bleeding-edge-netflix-documentary-medical-devices

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

They also bought Monsanto and, if anything, ramped up the evil from THAT murderous shitshow!

Why am I suddenly thinking about Norm Macdonald and Hitler? 😉

[-] dedale@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

[-] andrew@midwest.social 11 points 11 months ago

They also acquired and still run the business previously done by Monsanto known for things like agent orange and eliminating corn biodiversity. Their legal department is also infamous for bankrupting small farmers.

[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Jesus. Straight to the top

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[-] JoeClu@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago

Dutch East India Company - The original corporate raiders.

MASS ATROCITIES!

[-] jossbo@lemmy.ml 45 points 11 months ago

They are the Bug Bad Evil in my pirate themed DnD campaign. Or a proxy of them at least. What better justification for becoming a pirate than them? To quote a real pirate captain from the 1700, "They rob the poor under cover of law, we plunder the rich under the cover of our own courage."

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 12 points 11 months ago

That's a 10/10 quote

[-] Antiques@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

And no. 2 is The British East India Company

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[-] mohKohn@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I'd be pointing at them.

[-] livus@kbin.social 77 points 11 months ago

Ok so Nestle for child murder, Bayer for AIDs blood, Union Carbide for Bhopal disaster and its parent Dow Chemical for Agent Orange (Monsanto too).

IBM for helping the Nazis with concentration camps and Degesch for Zyclon B. United Fruit Company and Dutch & British East India Companies for colonization, also everyone that was shipping rubber out of the Belgian Congo.

Everyone who makes landmines, cluster bombs, etc.

I think when this question is asked in 100 years Palantir is going to feature.

[-] jocanib@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago
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[-] small44@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago

United Fruit Company because they manipulated several countries in Central America and helped the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government in Guatemala

[-] optissima@possumpat.io 13 points 11 months ago

20th century East India Company.

[-] FlyLikeAMouse@feddit.uk 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 54 points 11 months ago

So many to choose from...

DuPont Chemical?

Wells Fargo?

Wal-Mart?

Coca-Cola?

My pick would be Bank of America for their illegal foreclosure practices which have ruined many families' lives, and especially for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis which destabilized the entire global economy and which we are still trying to recover from. Everyone on the entire planet was impacted by the Great Recession.

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[-] Bennieboj@kbin.social 39 points 11 months ago
[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 18 points 11 months ago

Nestlé is responsible for misleading African mothers into thinking formula is better than their own breast milk. They lied to expectant mothers just to sell formula.

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[-] ZuriMuri@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 11 months ago

Google

They made private data the „new gold“ which it is today long before social media started exploiting it. Changing their motto /code of conduct „Don’t be evil“ into „Do the right thing“ (for our shareholders) didn’t benefit their reputation either…

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Changing their motto /code of conduct „Don’t be evil“ into „Do the right thing“ (for our shareholders) didn’t benefit their reputation either…

It's still in their code of conduct, though.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Only as a joke.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

Meat producers.

Trillions of animals killed for profit every year.

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[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

What a disgusting thing to say.

[-] sycamore@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You just told us that selling meat is worse than slavery.

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[-] HelixDab@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

...And how exactly do you think people are going to be able to eat meat otherwise? Or have dairy, eggs, wool, etc.? Do you think that people should e.g., raise chickens in the city?

And that's ignoring the small obligate carnivores that make up most of the pets in the world.

Hey, I'd rather hunt my own food too, but we no longer live in tribal or feudal societies where you can reasonably expect to engage in animal husbandry yourself.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

We shouldn't be eating meat or any other animal products.

Animals are living and feeling beings who experience the world much like humans do, we shouldn't be exploiting, abusing or killing them for profit/taste when we can easily avoid it.

And it's terrible for the planet.

Environmental Impacts of Food Production

[-] HelixDab@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

First: How do you reconcile that view with the idea that animals also experience the world as people do with the idea that animals kill and eat other animals? Bears, for instance, are roughly as intelligent as a kindergartener, and yet happily kill and eat any other animals that they can. Pigs and crows are also omnivorous, and will eat any source of meat that they come across. They can all likewise avoid killing if they choose, yet they don't. Are they immoral? Or does morality only apply to humans? (Even animals that we traditionally think of as herbivorous are opportunistic meat eaters.)

Second: What would you propose replacing animal products with, when there are no alternatives that function as well? What about when the alternative products also cause greater environmental harms?

Third: So you would not have a problem with, for instance, hunting and eating invasive species, since those species cause more harm to existing ecosystems than not eradicating them would? What about when those invasive species are also highly intelligent, e.g. feral pigs? Or is it better to let them wreck existing ecosystems so that humans aren't causing harm? To drill down on that further, should humans allow harm to happen by failing to act, or should we cause harm to prevent greater harm?

Fourth: "Exploiting" is such an interesting claim. Vegans are typically opposed to honey, since they view it as an exploitative product. Are you aware that without commercial apiaries, agriculture would collapse? That is, without exploiting honey bees, we are not capable of pollinating crops?

Would you agree, given that all food production for humans causes environmental harm, that the only rational approach to eliminate that harm is the eradication of humanity?

[-] mackwinston@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago

I'm not a vegan, not even a vegetarian - but your message is so full of logical fallacies and whataboutisms, it's enough to drive someone to veganism. Is that really the best you can do?

The first sentence is like when a child has done something wrong, and their mother tells them off, so the child says "Well, did it too", to which the mother responds, "Well, if jumped off a cliff, would you also jump off a cliff?"

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[-] dobeltip@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago
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[-] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 23 points 11 months ago

Chiquita bananas. They literally stole entire south/central American countries and used death squads and the CIA to enslave the workers and kill them when they asked for such unreasonable demands like being paid in actual currency

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[-] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 22 points 11 months ago

I'm sure there are worse, and it's not one company, but the companies that provide malware to dictatorships are pretty bad, and western countries are sheltering them/not doing much about them.

Examples:

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 7 points 11 months ago
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[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

Saudi Aramco or ExxonMobil

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[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago

That's the problem, really. Numerous companies do unspeakable evil, which makes it very difficult to name and shame any one of them.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Right. Corporations aren't the problem, they're just a symptom of the real problem. Even though they're evil, they're just a product of their environment. The "good" corporations aren't profitable and go out of business.

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[-] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 14 points 11 months ago

Dave's Electronics at 4th & Elm

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

I can't believe you even put Spectrum in the same tier as Nestle lol.

[-] MrSlicer@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

One let babies starve for profit, the other has shitty internet service /customer service. Seems equal /s.

[-] Countmacula@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Johnson&Johnson

swindled does a few episodes about them. It’s FUCKING INFURIATING the shit they got away with.

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[-] Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 11 months ago
[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Lemmy moment

[-] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

I'm guessing it would some of the big companies of colonial times, like the British East or Dutch India Companies.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Hard to pick a favorite from the long list.

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