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Bayer

pharmaceuticals

2 👺

Is Bayer Ethical?

Bayer is highly unethical

Bayer is a German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company which used bribery and false advertising to sell unnecessary drugs ^[1], sold Monsanto herbicides linked to cancer ^[2]^[3]^[4], and contaminated water sources with toxic chemicals ^[5]^[6]. Bayer also rushed production processes that led to an explosion killing two people ^[7], sold contraceptive coils that caused serious health issues ^[8], knowingly supplied HIV‑contaminated medications in Asia and Latin America ^[9], and supported the Nazis by producing Zyklon B for gas chambers ^[10].

Alternatives to Bayer

Send your message and feel good about where you shop. These companies are alternatives to Bayer.

24 alternative companies tagged: pharmaceuticals

Haleon

consumer goods

40 😐

Haleon is an American consumer goods company which has been engaged in price fixing [1] and which was linked to the sale of Zantac, a gastrointestinal drug that led to cases of cancer [2][3].

Advil

consumer goods

40 😐

Advil is owned by Haleon.

Centrum

consumer goods

40 😐

Centrum is owned by Haleon.

Nicorette

consumer goods

40 😐

Nicorette is owned by Haleon.

Aquafresh

consumer goods

40 😐

Aquafresh is owned by Haleon.

Voltaren

consumer goods

40 😐

Voltaren is owned by Haleon.

Sensodyne

consumer goods

40 😐

Sensodyne is owned by Haleon.

AstraZeneca

pharmaceuticals

24 😡

AstraZeneca is a pharmaceutical company that has remained active in Russia during international sanctions [1], ran a negligently managed antipsychotic trial resulting in a patient's death [2], and falsely marketed drugs with serious side effects as safe, including a cholesterol medication [3] and a cancer drug linked to multiple deaths [4]. The company has faced major legal actions for illegally marketing the unsafe antipsychotic drug Seroquel to vulnerable populations [5], filing false claims with U.S. government health programs [6], misrepresenting study results for a heart drug [7], bribing doctors in China and Russia [8], and engaging in price fixing and anti-competitive drug pricing schemes [9].

Roche

pharmaceuticals

20 😡

Roche is a Swiss pharmaceutical company that has violated marketing regulations by omitting safety information [1], engaged in price fixing and other anticompetitive practices [2][3], illegally promoted drugs for off‑label uses [4] and committed hazardous waste environmental violations [5]. The firm has also underpaid and discriminated against employees [6][7], penalised a whistleblower who exposed regulatory lies [8], continued operations in Russia [9], exploited people in developing countries for clinical trials [10], failed to report thousands of side‑effect cases and deaths related to its medicines [11], conducted trials using organs from executed prisoners in China [12], and collaborated with Nazis during World War II [13].

10.

GSK

pharmaceuticals

5 👺

GSK is a British pharmaceutical company that has been implicated in tax avoidance [1], market manipulation and anticompetitive practices [2], and continued operations in Russia despite international pressure [3][4]. The company has engaged in widespread bribery of doctors [5][6][7][8], fraud, drug safety violations, and the illegal manufacturing and sale of contaminated drugs [9][10][11].

11.

Merck

pharmaceuticals

3 👺

Merck is a U.S. pharmaceutical company that has engaged in tax avoidance [1], sold several unsafe medications [2][3][4][5], and discharged toxic chemicals into rivers, causing fish deaths [6]. The company has defrauded Medicaid of hundreds of millions of dollars [7][8][9], engaged in deceptive marketing of unsafe products [10][11], discredited doctors who questioned their dangerous medication [12], and sold medication that killed 25,000 people while refusing to compensate victims fairly [13][14].

12.

Pfizer

pharmaceuticals

3 👺

Pfizer is a United States pharmaceutical company that has engaged in intense and unethical marketing of medications to doctors [1], illegal off‑label promotion of gabapentin [2], neurontin [3], and arthritis drug Bextra [4][5][6], bribed doctors to prescribe its drugs [7][8][9], spent millions lobbying politicians [10], evaded taxes [11], overcharged the NHS for medicines [12][13], and bullied Latin American countries into unfavorable COVID‑vaccine deals [14]. It has also sold dangerous products, including an anti‑smoking drug linked to more than 20 suicides [15], a defective heart valve that killed hundreds of patients [16][17], and conducted lethal trials on Nigerian children that killed 50 [18][19][20], while firing an employee who sued for workplace injury [21], and causing a plant explosion that injured five people [22].

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