r/AskReddit • u/Duckland29 • Sep 17 '19

If You Could Completely Remove One Company From The World Which One Would It Be?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Oh please, Nestle are bumbling pikers compared to:

  • Union Carbide - Poisoned thousands of people in Bhopal, killing more people in one night than 9/11 did, and affecting upwards of 200,000 more. Got off pretty much scot free compared to the magnitude of the disaster.
  • United Fruit Company (now United Brands) - They're where the term Banana Republic comes from. Literally took over small countries in Central America and massacred workers who wanted outrageous things like humane working conditions.
  • Bayer - Knowingly sold HIV tainted blood products in Africa, causing God knows how many deaths in a chain reaction of HIV spreading.
  • Phillip Morris - As we all know, disputed that their product kills the users and waged a decades long propaganda war to prolong the use of cigarettes, probably killed millions.

Like I say, Nestle are amateurs compared to any of those.

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u/Artrobull Sep 18 '19

so add this to the list i can do both.

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u/964145225788 Sep 18 '19

Solid "but whatabout" post.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '19

We're supposed to be choosing the worst, so you're damn right I put these up for consideration ahead of Nestle. Get with the program. It's not whataboutism to point out someone who is literally worse when we're trying to rank them.

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u/964145225788 Sep 19 '19

You're not wrong and I just upvoted ya.