"These corporations, if they
were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they
continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco
disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the
green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular
order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the cigarette company)
most of them are legit horrible. I’m posting a summary but I recommend
reading the full article: http://brainz.org/15-deadliest-us-corporations/
Chevron : (then Texaco) discharged 18 billion gallons of toxic water
into the rain forests of Ecuador without any remediation, destroying the livelihoods
of local farmers and sickening indigenous populations. Chevron was responsible
for the death of several Nigerians who protested the company’s polluting,
exploiting presence in the Nigerian Delta. Chevron paid the local militia, known
for its human rights abuses, to squash the protests, and even supplied them
with choppers and boats. The military opened fire on the protesters, then
burned their villages to the ground.
DeBeers : was knowingly funding violent guerrilla movements in
Angola, Sierra Nevada, and the Congo with its diamond purchases. In Botswana,
DeBeers has been blamed for the “clearing” of land to be mined for diamonds
— including the forcible removal of indigenous peoples who
had lived there for thousands of years. The government allegedly cut off the
tribe’s water supplies, threatened, tortured and even hanged resisters.
Tyson
: Even if you don’t care about the horrendous animal
abuse that has been documented in Tyson’s factory farms, you have to
flinch at Tyson’s appalling environmental abuses and workers’ rights violation-
Tyson has allowed e coli tainted beef to enter the food supply. A recent
study showed that Tyson’s chickens were the most salmonella-and-campylobactor filled poultry
of all the major suppliers and has even been accused of human trafficking to
supply themselves with cheap labor.
Smith
& Wesson : In a study of the top ten guns involved in crime in the U.S.,
the first was the Smith & Wesson .38 Special.
Phillip
Morris : is the largest manufacturer of
cigarettes in the U.S.
Haliburton : is a huge “oilfield services” company, profited big
time from the U.S.’s invasion of Iraq when Cheney called in his boys to
quell burning oil wells — and to “help”
the Iraq oil ministry pump and distribute oil. Haliburton has also
been implicated in countless oil spills, including the BP disaster of
2010.
Coca
Cola : corporation has wrought devastation in
India, where its factories use up to one million liters of water per day,
leaving tens of thousands of nearby residents dry during the drought months.
Then the factories dispose of the wastewater improperly, contaminating
whatever water is left. A lawsuit in 2001 accused Coca Cola of
hiring paramilitaries in Columbia which suppressed unionization in the cola
plant there through intimidation, torture and murder.
Pfizer : the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the U.S., pleaded
guilty in 2009 to the largest health care fraud in U.S. history. Pfizer
decided to use Nigerian children as guinea pigs. In 1996, Pfizer traveled
to Kano, Nigeria to try out an experimental antibiotic on third-world
diseases such as measles, cholera, and bacterial meningitis. They gave trovafloxacin
to approximately 200 children. Dozens of them died in the experiment, while
many others developed mental and physical deformities. According to the EPA, Pfizer can also proudly
claim to be among the top ten companies in America causing the most air
pollution.
ExxonMobil : is perhaps best known for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill which
resulted in 11 million gallons of oil contaminating Prince William Sound.
But they have also been responsible for a huge oil spill in Brooklyn and for aiding
in the decline of Russia’s critically endangered grey whale because of
drilling in its habitat. The Political Economy Research Institute ranks
ExxonMobil sixth among corporations emitting airborne pollutants in the
United States.
Caterpillar : supplies the Israeli army with bulldozers which are used to
demolish Palestinian homes — sometimes with the people still inside.
In 2003 a Caterpillar bulldozer ran over and killed
Rachel Corrie, an American protesting in Gaza who stood in front of the
tractor to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home.
Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Baily : “The Cruelest
Show on Earth” is famous for its abuse of wild animals.
Monsanto : Monsanto’s list of evils includes creating the “terminator” seed which creates plants which never
fruit or flower so that farmers must purchase them anew yearly, lobbying to
have “hormone-free” labels removed from the labels of milk and infant milk
replacer (through bovine growth hormone is believed to be a cancer-accelerator)
as well as a wide range of environmental and human health violations associated
with use of Monsanto’s poisons — most notably “Agent Orange.”
Nestle : crimes against man and nature include massive deforestation
in Borneo — the habitat of the critically endangered orangutan — to grow
palm oil, and buying milk from farms illegally-seized by a despot in
Zimbabwe. Nestle attracted worldwide boycott efforts for urging
mothers in third-world countries to use their infant milk replacer instead of
breastfeeding, without warning them of the possible negative effects.
Supposedly, Nestle hired women to dress as nurses to hand out free infant
formula, which was frequently mixed with contaminated water, or the children
starved when the formula ran out and their mothers could not afford more
and their breast milk had already dried up from disuse.
British
Petroleum : Who can forget 2010’s oil rig
explosion in the Gulf Coast which killed 11 workers and thousands of birds, sea
turtles, dolphins and other animals, effectively destroying the fishing and
tourism industry in the region? This was not BP’s first crime against nature. In fact,
between January 1997 and March 1998, BP was responsible for a whopping 104
oil spills.
Dyncorp : is best known for its brutality in impoverished countries, for trafficking in child sex slaves, for slaughtering
civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for training rebels in Haiti.
This privatized military company is often hired by the U.S. government to
protect American interests overseas — and so the government can claim no
responsibility for Dyncorp’s actions.
So yeah.
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