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J&J

Johnson & Johnson

health

1 👺

Johnson & Johnson is an American health company which sold asbestos‑containing baby powder leading to cancer and lung disease [1][2], conducted experiments on black prisoners [3][4], and sold a dangerous birth‑control patch that caused strokes, unwanted pregnancies, and deaths [5]. The company concealed the overdose risk of Tylenol leading to several deaths [6], sold fentanyl patches that killed more than fifty people [7][8], deployed a disinformation campaign to seel tranquilizer pills that disfigured tens of thousands of children and killed elderly patients [9][10], sold a defective hip replacement that ruined over a thousand lives [13], targeted high‑risk individuals to encourage opioid addiction [14], and covered up research about the danger of its cancer therapy, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths [11][12], - all while bribing doctors to prescribe its products [15][16].

Bayer

Bayer

pharmaceuticals

2 👺

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].

Carrefour

Carrefour

retail

4 👺

Carrefour is a French supermarket chain that has subjected employees to carbon monoxide poisoning [1], and sourced goods from supply chains involving animal abuse [2], slave labour [3], and illegal deforestation of the amazon rainforest [4][5]. Carrefour has subjected LGBT customers to discrimination [6], and refused to compensate the families of workers who were killed in the unsafe working conditions of one of its garment factories [7][8], while a young girl died in one if its stores after being electrocuted [9] and multiple people have been beaten and killed by store security guards [10][11].

McDonald's

McDonald's

fast food

5 👺

McDonald's is the world's largest fast food brand, which produces more emissions than Norway [1] and is the leading producer of litter in the UK [2], whose restaurants have hosted sexual abuse [3][4], illegal employment of children [5], and racist discrimination [6]. McDonald's has avoided hundreds of millions in taxes [7], failed to meet its own pledges to reduce animal abuse in its supply chain [8], and offered free meals to the IDF as it commited war crimes in Gaza [9].

Amazon

Amazon

retail

5 👺

Amazon is an American online retail and tech conglomerate which has funded climate change denial groups [1], issued propaganda to local news stations [2][3], sent thousands of items of unused stock to landfill [4][5], avoided billions in tax [6], violated privacy laws [7][8], discriminated against black and female employees [9][10], mistreated workers [11][12], aggressively opposed unionisation [13][14][15] and engaged in anticompetitive practices [16][17][18].

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Lowe's

Lowe's

retail

20 😡

Lowe's is an American home improvement retailer that has misled customers [1], used facial recognition on shoppers without consent [2], ended DEI initiatives [3][4], illegally prevented employees from discussing pay [5], engaged in anti‑union operations and dismissals [6][7], misclassified and under‑compensated workers [8][9][10][12], discriminated against disabled workers [11], forced employees into overtime [13], and sold wood from illegal logging [14]. The company has also committed environmental violations, including air pollution [15][16] and illegal hazardous waste dumping [17].

Logitech

Logitech

electronics

40 😐

Logitech is a Swiss company that has ended support for customers' existing products causing them to stop working [1] and engaged in accounting fraud [2]. The company has also violated customer privacy [3] and maintained unacceptable working conditions in its supply chain [4].

L.L.Bean

L.L.Bean

clothing

36 😡

L.L.Bean is an American outdoor apparel retailer that has misled customers [1][2], has executives who donated to Donald Trump [3][4][5][7], and has faced allegations of sexual discrimination against employees [6]. The company has also sold unsafe child carriers and delayed reporting [8], opposed consumer privacy regulations [9], and potentially profited from forced Uyghur labor [10].

Lloyds

Lloyds

bank

20 😡

Lloyds is a British bank that has engaged in tax avoidance [1], libor interest rate fraud [2], and has misled customers through greenwashing [3][4][5], defrauded customers [6][7][8], used threatening language and misleading branding to intimidate customers into paying bills [9], and engaged in car finance fraud [10]. Additionally, it has pressured employees leading to product mis-selling [11] and financed nuclear weapons and arms sales to Israel [12].

Linkedin

Linkedin

tech

35 😡

Linkedin is owned by Microsoft.

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