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Name a modern company who historically has a hand in causing death and give an example of their atrocities (lemmygrad.ml)
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So far, I've only heard of nation-states committing atrocities whose gov't officials end up in the Hague...

How about companies, whose CEOs and stockholders have a role in committing such large scale crimes who deserve the wall?

Edit: Bonus points if you include a death toll...

From what I've read on wikipedia's Nestle

In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by "mothers in [low and middle-income countries] without clean water sources", with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.[47]

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Glencore, nestle, bp of the top of my head

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Facebook.

Facebook literally facilitated a genocide in southeast asia.

Mark Zuckerberg should be tried at the Hague.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Plus all the trouble in Xinjiang.

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So what have they done? All I know from there is Nestle must've done something to do with the baby formula crisis thing in Pakistan...

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nestle knowingly lied to women about formula being better than breast milk when they did not have access to adequate amounts of clean water in part because NESTLE OWNED ALL THE WATER.

Nestle also uses child slave labor in their chocolate supply chains and uses paramilitary death squads to suppress workers attempts to organize (as does coca cola and many other corporations that operate extractive industries in the global south).

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Bayer knowingly sold hiv-tainted medicine in secondary markets in the 80s.

All usa drug-companies participate in orphan drugs shenanigans.

Chiquita was involved in child labor https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/04/24/ecuador-widespread-labor-abuse-banana-plantations and here i suspect some bs about using lots of layers of separations allows them to continue.

Monsanto routinely fucks farmers in africa

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Glencore is in particular cobalt miner in congo https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/glencore-congo-cobalt-mining-lawsuit/45446800 (the lawsuit was dismissed in usa). Aside from child labor, they are likely involved in some deathsquads. And they are not only mining cobalt

BP countless oilspills, all shady dealings they are involved somewhere (probably including in palestine offshore drilling rn)

Nestle, again outside from the obvious water depletion inside usa, sources its cacao from child labor and lawsuit was again dismissed (defended by obama legal guy)