| Adidas |
Child labor, slave labor. |
| BP Amoco |
Drilling in South America, along with Shell and
Occidental. This is displacing thousands of indigenous peoples and peasants
as the search for the blood of the earth continues. |
| Champion |
Child labor, slave labor |
| Chiquita Banana |
Labor conditions issues |
| Citibank |
Helping to fund the Three Gorges Dam in China which will displace
millions of Chinese peasants and farmers. |
| Coca-Cola |
Refuses to use recycled plastic in their bottles; concern
about colonialization (you can even find Coca-Cola advertisements in Nepal!)
and imperialism |
| Dole |
Slave labor and soil destruction (from monocropping). |
| Dow, DuPont, Monsanto |
Leaders in bioengineering and pesticide distribution. |
| Exxon-Mobil |
Responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, this
corporation has not improved their safety standards to prevent another such
spill. |
| GAP, Banana Republic, Old Navy |
Slave and child labor. |
| Hershey |
Chocolate distributor,
takes advantage of poor people on the Ivory Coast. |
| Irving |
Irving is a Canadian logging company as well as a oil distributor.
They are of local concern to Maine because they come in with Canadian workers
to chop down Maine's woods, then export the logs back up to Canada. Maine
only gets clearcuts out of the deal: no economic benefits since the workers
are Canadian (so Maine loggers lose out), no logs to sell. |
| Kodak |
One of the largest ocean polluters |
| McDonalds |
Their beef comes from Central and South America where rainforests
are cut down to accomodate cattle ranches. Countries like Brazil are cutting
down their rich forests for rich foreigners to create cattle ranches. Soil
in the forest is of low mineral content and neither crops nor cattle last
very long on it; usually 2 years. So then they cut down more forest since
the first space is now rendered useless. |
| M&M Mars |
Chocolate from
Ivory Coast |
| Nalgene |
Their main product is contraptions used for animal
testing restraints (corporation founded when producing only these contraptions) |
| Nestle |
Markets infant formula in third world countries. Mother's
milk has been scientifically proven to be the most nutritious for babies,
and many mothers in third world countries are strapped for financial resources
and continuously spending money on formula is beyond their capacity, yet
Nestle tells them they need it, so they feel guilty if they don't buy the
formula and financially burdened if they do. Also a chocolate
distributor. |
| New Balance |
Is no longer only made in the US! Some shoes are made in China,
so there are labor concerns. |
| Nike |
Slave labor in Saipan |
| Occidental Oil |
Diplacement of the U'wa tribe in Colombia and contributor
to the violence in that country. |
| Pepsi |
slave labor |
| Philip Morris |
Owner of Kraft, Marlboro, Camel, Folgers Coffee, Maxwell House
Coffee, Little Debbie; markets cigarettes to teenagers and third world countries.
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| Post |
Bioengineered Food. |
| Proctor & Gamble |
a leader in animal testing. |
| Sodexo-Marriot |
Invests in private prisons |
| Shell |
It seems that they search for oil whereever indigenous peoples
are. In the 90s, they displaced tribes in Nigeria in the name of drilling
and creating a pipeline. Now they have opened up shop in Colombia |
| Starbucks |
Buys the cheapest coffee available on the market and sells
it at a huge profit. The cheapest coffee is usually the one that is cheapest
to produce; no environmental standards, worker standards, or worker unions.
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| Unilever |
Another huge conglomerate that just bought out Ben & Jerry's.
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| Wal-Mart |
Keeps their workers on 'part time' so that they don't have
to offer full time benefits; they try their darndest to keep workers from
unionizing; Wal-Mart opens shop in spaces typically away from town (which
increases sprawl) and on ecologically important yet economically expendable
places (like wetlands). |
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