Name your pick for Most EVIL Corporation.

[NightWatcher]

Bank of America?
Walmart?
Starbucks?
Olive Garden?

Who's your pick and why (if it's not obvious)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. MONFUCKINGSANTO

[geardaddy]

2. Seconded. n/t

[tabatha]

15. Thirded.

[lazyriver]

19. Hell yeah.

[alfredo]

22. Monsanto

[ljm2002]

28. Yeppers...

...that's the one.

So many to choose from, but Monsanto is really the poster child for evil corporations. They aggressively pursue innocent farmers who are already harmed by having their crops tainted with Monsanto's GMO pollen; they actually think they have the right to dictate that farmers not save seeds from this year for next year's plantings; they subject us all to large scale testing of GMO foods even though none of us has agreed to being guinea pigs; and they are trying to take over food production worldwide.

They are without a doubt the worst of the worst.

[Mist]

33. How odd--I was just thinking about this last night, and came up with Monsanto. nt

[justabob]

51. yep, that's first one that comes to mind nt

[arcadian]

65. I'm gonna ninth that

Or Pfizer or Searle.

[Greyhound]

3. GE, NewsCorp, Wal-Mart. Can't pick just one, sorry.

Forgot Monsanto.

[Greyhound]

8. Forgot Exxon/Mobile n/t

[Greyhound]

9. Forgot Haliburton. n/t

[jmg257]

4. What's the deal with Olive Garden? I never heard the details about them (why they suck).???

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. I think this refers to the nursing mom at Olive Garden story

or maybe she was nursing at Circuit City??

Both classic threads from a year or so ago.

[Auggie]

14. Suggestion: Don't confuse franchise behavior with corporate policy,

unless corporate policy dictates franchise behavior.

[awoke_in_2003]

49. Thanks. nt

[GodlessBiker]

5. ExxonMobil

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Monsanto or WalMart

[kdmorris]

11. Those are the two at the top of my list, too

Hard to pick just one (or two) when so many of them have gone bad, but...those are the two that have done the most damage, in my opinion.

[driver8]

7. Halifuckingburton!!!!!

Followed closely by Monsanto.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. Golly, how can you pick just one?

Artificial persons have no hearts.

[Initech]

16. Winner!

[Throd]

13. Blackwater

[Initech]

18. Their CEO seems like an evil prick.

And then he goes on the talk show circuit saying that its OK that they're doing what they're doing. Go back to bed America your government is in control!

[ellenfl]

38. ditto . . . owned by a typical christian hypocrite. eom

[NYC_SKP]

17. Any of the Media Conglomerates because they Control Information and Media.

We'd less likely have a Monsanto if we had a benevolent ABC or CBS, for example.

[Barack_America]

20. WalMart. The private jet waiting on the tarmac to go bust up unionization attempts...

...may just be the very definition of evil.

[Initech]

21. Dell Computer

Pioneers of selling our jobs overseas to the highest, er, lowest bidder.

[doc03]

23. Caterpillar I believe they were one of the first way back

in Reagan days to bring in replacement workers (scabs) to break their Union.

[alfredo]

32. Scab labor has been with us even before reagan was born. Ask a

coal miner.

[lies and propaganda]

24. Etsy

hahaha.. there is so many more but the asshole 'art' site I sell my stuff at is seriously one of the shittiest companies ever.

Took 27million from a Walmart board dbag and continuously allow trolls to shitstart all over the forum because they are too cheap to hire a mod.

Seriously, you thought the morans we deal with here are alot, try political assholes that are so poorly informed they troll art sites to not get the beat down they would receive here.

[ipfilter]

25. Vonage tops my list this week.

They don't bother to disclose their early termination fee of $39.99 + tax anywhere but in the fine print of their Terms of Service. There is no mention of this junk fee anywhere until you actually cancel and they hit you with it.

[COLGATE4]

26. CMS ENERGY

A corporation which as a regulated utility is allowed to pass on workers' salaries to the ratepayers (and therefore has no need to cut staff) but which likes to downsize anyway, just for the hell of it.:mad:

[marions ghost]

27. how about categories?

Retail, Banking, Media, Chemicals, Pharma, Energy, Agri-Biz, Communications, etc.

Then I think I could do it....with 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize

Easier to list the least evil--so few

[Hubert Flottz]

29. Better throw Bayer in there too...

http://archive.corporatewatch.org/genetics/bayer.htm

Bayer predecessor financed torture in concentration camps

http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/bayer.html

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

War Profiteering: Bayer, Anthrax and International Trade

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=723

[Contrary1]

40. You forgot to include this one:

Heart Bypass and Kidney Failure Directly Affected by Bayer's Former All-Star Drug Trasylol

http://www.ideamarketers.com/?Heart_Bypass_and_Kidney_Failure_Directly_Affected_by_Bayers_Former_All-Star_Drug_Trasylol&articleid=469056

They knew about it and did nothing. I believe that my mother was one of the 22,000 deaths that may have been avoided, though I cannot prove it.

She suffered severe kidney damage after heart surgery, and was on dialysis for the last miserable years of her life. Dialysis does horrible things to one's body. She had a stroke two years later and dies.

[BobRossi]

30. Any importer of Chinese shit. nt

[PassingFair]

31. Walmart. It's EVERYWHERE.

[Barack_America]

34. Amway.

That's my second pick.

Republican and fundie-supporting pyramid-scheme cult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway

[On the Road]

36. I Have to Say

there's a special place in my spleen for multi-level marketing companies. They don't get much publicity, but those higher in the chain make millions giving give false hope to their recruits while getting them to operate for slave wages.

[Brewman_Jax]

35. Don't forget Disney

owner/controller of ABC, including ABC News.

[Ron Green]

37. Bingo! Not to mention their manipulation of reality, to the detriment of

millions of children's understanding of the world. All the while masquerading as "wholesome" entertainment.

[walldude]

43. Yeah that horrible Wall-E movie really messed up my kids...

:eyes:

[MinM]

61. NSA's Dr. Haseltine, formerly of Disney (CIA for kidz!)

Dr. Eric Haseltine is a neuroscientist and executive who used to work for Disney.

[Throd]

52. Or as I call it "The Pricess Industrial Complex"

They already have their hooks in my 5 year old daughter.

Only a matter of time before they get the wee one too.

[cobalt1999]

60. Disney?

I hear Republicans and Christian groups demonizing them, but I didn't know liberals hated them too.

Damn. For not appealing to anyone, they sure do sell a ton of stuff.

[Brewman_Jax]

64. They're very appealing

and sell tons of stuff, but that doesn't make them any less an evil corporation.

[Greyhound]

39. How about most evil corporation by category? n/t

[closeupready]

41. Doesn't exist anymore, but

that one from the film "Silkwood".

[seabeyond]

42. AT & T. n/t

[tom_paine]

44. Blackwater, Halliburton, and Monsanto in a three way-tie of destructive evil greed.

Honorable Mentions: Exxon, News. Corp and Wal-Mart.

[Sabriel]

45. Not a corporation, but a front for many: American Chemical Council

These are the friendly folks who tried to pay the EPA to get families with kids to participate in a study to assess the effects of various toxins on children, for which they would receive compensation of under $1000. Fortunately, public outcry canceled the "study." Who needs Mengele when you have big pharma and chem?

[Pisces]

46. Halliburton or Monsato win

[hugo_from_TN]

47. Apple

Projects an image as progressive and then ships jobs overseas.

[Blue_In_AK]

48. I have a particular grudge against Exxon,

but there are so many it's hard to pick.

[Dukkha]

50. WalMart

#1 contributor to the dissolvement of Industry, outsourcing all manufacturing overseas, essentially pulling the safety net out from the US economy. They are the largest corporation in the world now and they make NOTHING!

[Norwood]

53. Exxon

[wickerwoman]

54. McDonalds is pretty evil

They blatantly target kids with their advertising, take advantage of poorer school districts to get their food into the schools and hook kids while they're young, build playgrounds in poor neighborhoods to get the kids in and then addict them to high fat, high salt, nutritionally deficient food.

They buy cheap meat from dodgy, non-union sources. They threaten to close stores where employees try to unionize. They threaten to sue restaurant reviewers who write negative reviews. They have corporate spies infiltrating London Greenpeace and sleeping with an organizer to get information about planned protests.

And their food sucks.

They're definitely in the top five most evil corporations in America.

I'd go:

1.) Monsanto
2.) Halliburton
3.) Walmart
4.) McDonalds
5.) your HMO here

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. THE STANDINGS SO FAR

Notable absences: Nestlé, Microsoft, Shell, Coca-Cola.

1) Monsanto, 12 votes
2) Wal-Mart, 6 votes
3) ExxonMobil
=) Halliburton
=) Blackwater, 4 votes
6) Disney, 3 votes
7) Bayer
=) Amway, 2 votes
9) GE
=) News Corporation
=) Dell
=) Caterpillar
=) Vonage
=) CMS
=) AT&T
=) Apple
=) McDonald's

[geardaddy]

56. Thanks for reminding me.

Nestlé

and DuPont

[VirginiaProgressive]

57. Walmart

clearly walmart.

[Spider Jerusalem]

58. For long-term effects? A three-way tie:

General Motors, Standard Oil and Firestone Tire & Rubber (fostering American dependency on cars and gasoline by buying up and destroying urban transit networks across the country after WWII).

[Prophet 451]

59. DeBeers

See most of the history of South Africa for why.

[Kitty Herder]

62. Damn, do I have to choose just one?

In that case, I guess I'll go with Haliburton. War-profiteering is EVIL. Of course, they're not the only corporation engaged in war-profiteering, but they're one of the most obvious examples.

[ColbertWatcher]

63. Whole Foods, a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group. n/t

[JFN1]

66. The US Chamber of Commerce

And the oil companies. Oh, and the phone companies, for allowing illegal wire-tapping. And the banks and brokerage that helped get us into the mortgage mess. And Blackwater, Haliburton, KBR, etc.

Too many evil candidates to pick just one...

[LanternWaste]

67. Faversham Oyster Fishery

Faversham Oyster Fishery (formed sometime around 1189). Rat-bastards, all of 'em.

[dysfunctional press]

68. not one health insurance company listed...?

i guess people must be more satisfied with their healthcare than i thought...:shrug:

[Peace_Sells]

69. Wal-Mart.

They suck.

[LeftinOH]

70. BLACKWATER , INC...and that Eric Prick...erm, 'Prince' (and his entire family) that runs it..n/t

[Va Lefty]

71. Walmart=Satan

[mitchum]

72. Siemens...y'know that whole slave labor thing

[mitchum]

73. The Vatican