2. Chiquita Chiquita haven’t always been about a happy Latina lady balancing a bowl of fruit on her head; before 1984 they were the rather more stately-sounding United Fruit Company, and you’re about to find out why they may have wanted a re-brand. For a start, in 1928 the so-called ‘Banana Massacre’ saw striking United Fruit Company workers being slaughtered by the Colombian Army, allegedly operating under orders from United Fruit. Up to 3,000 people may have been killed. Then, over a dispute about land in Guatemala, the UFC asked the CIA to intervene, which they handled with flying colors. By staging a coup, they installed a dictator, which led to a bloody civil war that began in 1960 and lasted 36 years.
In 1974 the UFC chairman Eli Black dealt with the company’s moral shortcomings by smashing a window on his 44th floor office with his briefcase and jumping to his death. By the way, they may have changed their name, but as recently as 2004 they were fined $25 million for funding terrorist organizations in Colombia casino games my. 1. Monsanto Monsanto have been voted Most Evil Corporation and are often decried because of their use of GMO crops. But to be honest, GMO is just a technology, and one that could be used for good. Monsanto has done much worse things that supposedly playing god. The first strike? The manufacture of Agent Orange for use by the US military in the Vietnam War. The chemical was dropped from planes and designed to ‘defoliate’, or burn, all crops and vegetation that worked to the benefit of the opposition. But it burned a lot more than just that, with millions of Vietnamese people suffering from exposure to the chemical. Strike two? Since then they’ve managed to make seeds that produce their own pesticides and don’t reproduce, forcing farmers to rebuy crops year after year from them. The farmers can’t even buy from elsewhere because Monsanto artificially controls all prices in the seed market. The third and final strike? They managed to get the US government to pass the ‘Monsanto Protection Act’, which absolves them of any liability for environment or human damage. Oh by the way, remember Bayer? Well in 2016, they bought Monsanto. Got any dark secrets of your own? Share them in the comments below and maybe you can start an evil corporation together. Also check out this video here.
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