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35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye

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As consumers, we’re all just trying to do our best. Buy what you need but not too much. Support small businesses, but don’t break the bank. Stop supporting fast fashion and animal cruelty, and make sure that bag didn’t come from a factory where workers are exploited. Trying to be an ethical consumer can be confusing and exhausting.
But if we can’t be perfect consumers, thanks to the landscape provided for us by massive corporations, we can at least try to avoid the brands that are the worst of the worst. Reddit users have recently been calling out the most “evil [companies] not enough people talk about,” so you’ll find some of their thoughts down below. From huge pharmaceutical distributors to fruit producers, you may already be aware of some of these unethical companies, but feel free to upvote the ones you’d like others to stop supporting as well!

#1

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
PETA. Bunch of f*****g hypocrites.
270points

#2

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Any for-profit health insurance company has plenty of blood on its hands. Charging people out the a*s only for non-doctors to decide what care is or isn’t medically necessary to cover.
264points

To learn more about how this conversation started, we reached out to the Reddit user who posed the question, "What’s an evil company not enough people talk about?" And lucky for us, they were kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. "I hear a lot of ‘so and so company is bad’, for example Nestle ([screw] Nestle)," the OP shared. "There are so many it is hard to keep track of and there are so many terrible ones that go unseen. Reddit seemed an interesting place to ask that, as users often have weird and interesting information regarding there kinda topics."

"Some of the most unethical companies I have heard of, which are commonly consumed/bought from/used is Nestle, and there’s even a dedicated subreddit called [screw] Nestle, which really opened my eyes. There are countless others, unfortunately," the OP added.

#3

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
De Beers - the largest diamond company in the world - has been exploiting workers in the world's poorest nations for 135 years.
228points

#4

The Christian broadcasting network. Pat Robertson was one of the biggest pushers of anti-lgbt propaganda to Christians everywhere, going as far In the 80s to say that gay men wore rings with a spike so when they shake someone's hand they'll infect that person with HIV. May he rest in p**s
218points

#5

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
The Susan G Komen Foundation (The reason pink is everywhere for breast cancer awareness) is a crooked organization that not only pockets the majority of the incoming donations, but actively restricts other cancer research fundraising ventures.
200points

We were also curious what the OP thought of their post's replies. "Most [of them] did not surprise me, many were about Nestle, naturally," they told Bored Panda. "But others were about different insurers, healthcare companies, and fast fashion brands. Otherwise, there were responses from people affected by unethical retirement and nursing companies, and surprisingly many about ‘fake’ charities, that act as tax breaks and legally pay almost nothing to their workers."

#6

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Johnson and Johnson knew they had asbestos in their baby powder and still sold their products, causing countless cases of ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.
188points

#7

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Herbalife. Absolute trash scam ruining people’s lives.
180points

#8

Ticketmaster.
I don't care that people do talk about how predatory and outright evil Ticketmaster is, it's not talked about ENOUGH.
The FTC wants to block Microsoft buying Activision for no particular reason, but Ticketmaster...the very definition of a predatory monopoly gets a free pass. WTF is going on here?
175points

We also asked the OP if they believe there is such thing as an ethical company nowadays. "Companies can be ethical, but the moment they become a household name, for example, Apple, they have gone too far," they shared. "In order to get there, they must have put profits ahead of people, their egotism ahead of ethics. I’m sure there are many brilliant, morally uncorrupted companies, but unfortunately, it simply isn’t an effective way of making money nowadays."

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35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Nestle, bought some aquafers in Florida and could only legally take x amount a year. They'd just drain them and pay the fines. Also mansanto, but I think people talk about them a decent amount, but some people have never heard of them
163points

#10

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Goodwill. They are non-profit in name only and pay disabled people sub-minimum wage under the guise of helping them. They also put literal garbage on the shelves and sell things higher than they were new. Some are worse than others. 
157points

#11

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Autism Speaks
150points

#12

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Bayer knowingly sold blood-clotting
agents infected with HIV to Asia
and Latin America months after
withdrawing them from Europe
and the US.
149points

#13

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Knoa Pharma, formerly known as Purdue Pharma. They are the main character of the opioid crisis.
132points

#14

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Monsanto???
130points

#15

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
TurboTax has been lobbying the US government not to tell taxpayers how much they owe. So that they can make money doing that.
128points

#16

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
PG&E. They've burned down California several times, [unaliving] a number of our citizens here. Then having the audacity to play money games with the families of the deceased or those who've lost homes. F**k Em.
126points

#17

Sallie Mae, really any private student loan lender. Provides predatory student loans with outrageous interest rates that seem to never approach the level of being feasibly paid off. You also end up paying nearly double, sometimes triple the loan by the time you are able to pay it off.
117points

#18

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Tyson Foods, Cargill, National Beef Packing Company, and JBS.
Even if you dgaf about animals, they are pretty awful to the people who work at their slaughterhouses, and those four are like 85% of the market, so they also greatly exploit the farmers who raise animals for them.
102points

#19

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
DuPont. Watched Dark Waters yesterday…wtf???
97points

#20

35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
Brookdale, the senior care/assisted living megacorp.
Senior care in the US is f*****g terrifying, and they’re at the center of it. Abuse, neglect, grifting survivors into estate-locking deals… Brookdale is evil. And most of us will have to deal with them or someone like them as we’re entering our most vulnerable adult years.
97points
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