5 of the Most Evil Companies You Buy From Everyday

2. Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a mining company headquartered in Africa. As the biggest private mining company in the world, they provide much of the globe’s raw aluminum and copper—along with gold, uranium, and diamonds—and might have the most terrible track record for human rights violations ever.

In the 1970s, Rio Tinto was discovered to have been operating illegal uranium mines in Namibia and using the huge profits to support the apartheid government in South Africa. It turned out that the government was very aware of that.

Moreover, the company maintained its private mercenary army to keep blacks from revolting against them and the government. But that’s not all; the uranium mines also used brutal slave labor.