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Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

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Re: Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

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Totally distracting aside: I've always felt I wish I could walk around a store with a special set of glasses on so I could apply my own personal voting filters - Chili - benefits monsanto $0.05 per can, KRAFT Foods $1 per can

etc...

I mean I have a lot of values - I buy small label organics and that does a lot, but sometimes I just want to buy cheetos- I think I would think twice if I knew my enemies were benefitting.

Honestly I thought that was one of the purposes of something like G-Glass.

Anyway - but yeah, these companies exist because even if we know they are bad - we have no way of knowing what we are buying that is making them stay in power.

Money is our voting power - and unlike presidential elections, we generally have no idea what we're voting for.

Re: Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

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The basis for this claim seems to hinge on the facts that Cargill is a) big and b) privately owned, both of which are sins in today's political orthodoxy.

As a Minnesotan, I was wondering how long it would take before someone would notice them and shift their attention from Koch, but it had to happen at some point.

Re: Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

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post #2

Did they really make the authors photo take up half the page on mobile, even while scrolling down? That is a shockingly stupid idea.

Once you get to the actual story it goes away, at least with Brave on Android.

Very distracting, and I skipped past the foreword because of it.

Re: Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

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post #6

The basis for this claim seems to hinge on the facts that Cargill is a) big and b) privately owned, both of which are sins in today's political orthodoxy. As a Minnesotan, I was wondering how long it would take before someone would notice them and shift their attention from Koch, but it had to happen at some point.

No it doesn't. The basis of the claim is a set of clearly communicated shortcomings.

Re: Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

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post #9
post #6

The basis for this claim seems to hinge on the facts that Cargill is a) big and b) privately owned, both of which are sins in today's political orthodoxy. As a Minnesotan, I was wondering how long it would take before someone would notice them and shift their attention from Koch, but it had to happen at some point.

No it doesn't. The basis of the claim is a set of clearly communicated shortcomings.

And it completely ignores what the company has done for Minneapolis and the surrounding area. But it’s easy to disregard local knowledge when Internet outrage is the preferred reaction.
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