Essential.org presents the ten worst corporations of 2000.
- Aventis: Guilty of selling food not fit for human consumption.
- BAT: Guilty of smuggling tobacco.
- BP/Amaco: Guilty of polluting the Alaskan environment.
- Doubleclick: Guilty of intrusive business practice.
- Ford/Firestone: Guilty of knowingly selling goods that lead to the deaths of 35 people.
- Glaxo: Guilty of contributing to the AIDS epidemic in Africa by pricing helpful drugs out of the reach of those who need them most.
- Lockheed Martin: Guilty of using human guinea pigs to test rocket fuel containing pollutants.
- Phillips Petroleum: Guilty of unsafe working practices, after the most recent in a series of fires at its Houston plant left 71 people dead.
- Smithfields Foods: Guilty of wrecking both farm economy and farming country.
- Titan International: Guilty of union busting and illegal employment practices.
Ever get the feeling you’d be safer on another planet?