I have seen firsthand the harmful impact of businesses that do not bring their ethics with them to work. In my 40-year long career in Congress, I took on a range of companies that engaged in abusive practices. Their lives are worse for having come into contact with Cargill. The people who have been sickened or died from eating contaminated Cargill meat, the child laborers who grow the cocoa Cargill sells for the world’s chocolate, the Midwesterners who drink water polluted by Cargill, the Indigenous People displaced by vast deforestation to make way for Cargill’s animal feed, and the ordinary consumers who’ve paid more to put food on the dinner table because of Cargill’s financial malfeasance - all have felt the impact of this agribusiness giant. But this report provides extensive and compelling evidence to back it up. There are, alas, many companies that could vie for this dubious honor. But The Worst Company in the World? We recognize this is an audacious claim. Cargill is the United States’ largest privately held company, bigger even than the notorious Koch Industries.
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