List of unethical corporations and people

Michael Moore

Michael Moore can be perceived as being unethical because in this clip, he openly promotes the
global warming scientific fraud and goes ahead to blame the public for the pollution that has
been as a result of their use of automobile.

Monsanto

This organization can be termed as being unethical because it introduced to the market the
bovine hormone injection which had been proven to be unsafe for both humans and animals
during the testing stage.

Fox news

This broadcasting corporation can be termed as being unethical because the management refused
to broadcast the unethical operations that were going on in Monsanto because they did not want
to lose the advertisement revenue that they were receiving through advertising for the company.

CEO of Royal Shell

This CEO can be seen as being unethical because he used his perception management skills to
convince advocates that he was able to influence his companies to adopt sustainable
environmental practices such as avoiding pollution and yet his company based in Nigeria was
devastating the environment and local activists were even getting hanged for protesting against
these practices.

The US government

The US government can also be perceived as being unethical because it allowed the bovine
injection to enter the United States market knowing very well the risks involved with the
injection. The government was well aware that the injection posed potential harm to animals and
the well being of consumers.

Government representatives

They are definitely unethical because they enter in to trade agreements without the permission or
approval by the public and this allows wealthy predators to steal and plunder all the natural
matter that has been provided by the earth.

Warner/Chappell Music

This company can be perceived as being unethical because it managed to patent the song ‘Happy
Birthday’ and uses polls, surveys, and questionnaires to gather information about children so that
they can be targeted in their advertising schemes.
Business, Inc or Government, Inc.

These corporations are deemed unethical because they collect information from the public
pretending that the information being collected was to benefit the general public. However, these
corporations use the information to construct their propaganda campaigns and not used to benefit
the public in any way.

Tom Klein

This business man can be seen as being unethical because he uses deception to identify Pfizer as
a community partner while in the real sense, the company is used to acquire the taxpayer’s
money in order to get a foothold in to public transportation where all its offices are situated.

Disney Inc.

This corporation can be termed as unethical because it uses advertising techniques such as
students making them become walking billboards in exchange for their college tuition being
paid. The corporation especially used this technique through their concept of family magic.

Murdoch’s attorneys

These attorneys can also be viewed as being unethical in this film because when reporters found
out about Monsanto’s illegal activities, they tried to warn the public but they were stopped by
Murdoch’s attorneys who did not want to lose the money that they were receiving for
advertisement for the company.

Supreme Court

The Supreme Court can also be termed as being unethical because from the film it is shown that
the court granted corporations all the rights that human beings were entitled to. This move
ensured that corporations would become the most powerful institutions in world politics
replacing the government.

Courts

The courts can also be seen as being unethical because when the issue of Monsanto was brought
to their attention, they ruled out that falsifying news was not against the law. This means that the
courts permitted news reporters to broadcast false news and this can in turn mislead the public.

World Bank

This organization can be deemed unethical because it exploits natural resources and public
institutions all over the world. The corporation relies on fascist regimes in order to further
enforce their exploitation of natural resources and public institutions.

Farmers in India
These farmers can also be perceived as being unethical

The farmers in India refuse to abide by laws prohibiting them from saving seeds. “Whether you
obey the law or not is a matter of whether its cost effective. If the chance of getting caught and
the penalty are less than it costs to comply, people just think of it as being a business decision.”
In other words, criminal fines are just another cost of doing business.

gold traders watching the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center felt that the tragedy had a
“silver lining,” as it would drive up the price of gold.

The movie discusses the issue of patenting the DNA and genes of living things; according to the
Patent Office we can now patent anything that’s alive except a full birth human being

Bechtel corporation to privatize water in Bolivia, which made it illegal for people to collect rain
water

IBM punch card machines that Nazis used to record data on holocaust victims. The machines
that were regularly serviced by IBM’s German subsidiary throughout the war, and the American
IBM company profited from this. To what extent do companies have a moral responsibility to
limit the use of their products?

A spokesperson for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized efforts in California to dissolve
the Unical oil corporation. He stated that opposition to the company came primarily from people
at “the left end of the spectrum who don’t produce anything but hot air.”

Lucy Hughes, a market researcher who helps corporations “manipulate

consumers into wanting and buying your products” helps corporations turn people
into “completely mindless consumers of goods that they do not want.

Ressler is a provocative interviewee,

arguing that if stealth marketing is “showing you something that makes your life better in some
way, then who
cares––just say thanks!” For managers, the film highlights the importance of honesty in customer
relationships – and the increasing
difficulty of building that trust.

paper mills in the U.S.A dump toxic effluents from their processing plants into the nearby stream
or river, causing irreparable damage to the local ecosystem and also increasing risk to human
beings.

tendency to exploit cheap labor in Third World regions. A classic example of this is the
substandard wages paid to workers of Nike in Indonesia, who get less than one percent of the
marked price of the goods they manufacture.
A Monsanto product called Posilac (BST) is artificial hormone for factory farm cows that
increase milk production. How does this product benefit the farmer?

9. One side effect of Prosilac is that it causes infection in cows, which results in pus getting into
milk. It also requires giving cows antibiotics which cause strains of super viruses. Are these
problems counterbalanced by the product’s economic benefits for farmers?

In other words, corporations can knowingly take action that is destructive with no regard to
victims. If readers saw another person act in such ways, they’d identify the culprit as a dangerous
nut. legal construct is essentially unbalanced, existing almost exclusively for its self-interest no
matter the consequences. Since corporations have come to have a profound influence on society
and people, it’s compelling to read a thoughtful, plausible analysis of why some corporations
essentially slash and burn their ways through markets, communities, pensions, unions, suppliers,
competitors and even countries.

Michael Moore correctly points out that there are no limits to growth for corporations – there is
no such thing as enough! This results in their continuous devouring of small business and even
other corporations. Michael Moore promotes the global warming scientific fraud in this clip, and
blames the public for the pollution that has been created by our use of the automobile.

Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, the world’s biggest carpet manufacturer. Anderson
experienced a kind of eco-epiphany and restructured one-third of his $1.4 billion company on
ecologically sustainable principles. Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface (the world’s largest
commercial carpet manufacturer), describes a paradigm shift that he experienced when reading
Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce and learning about impact of corporations on species
extinction. This motivated him to seek ecological sustainability within his corporation. He states
that the day must come when environmental plundering is not allowed and people like him will
end up in jail.
the CEO of a British energy company who finds that his home is being picketed by
environmental activists goes out to bring the protestors coffee and snacks. He then engages them
in discussion, in which both sides become enlightened of the others’ opinions. Here we see the
most interesting example of the film’s premise: a CEO willing to admit that his company
occasionally behaves badly and who is ready to speak to protesters about how that behavior can
be improved.

Activists like Noami Klien, Joel Bakan and Noam Chomsky have raised these issues in their
speeches, interviews and written articles. As a result of these efforts, the general public has
become more conscious of the ‘social responsibility’ side of business corporations and has
become more demanding of them.