3. Bayer
You may know Bayer as the maker of Aspirin. They are one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. In 1984, they found that one of the products they were selling—a medication to induce blood clotting—was infecting people with HIV.
Like any responsible company, Bayer stopped marketing it and came up with a safer alternative—right before exporting all of the contaminated medicine to Latin America and Asia, where it continued to be sold.
Moreover, they even kept making the HIV-infected drug for another several months because it was cheaper to produce than the new substitute—this was again sold straight to developing countries.
About 6,000 people in the US were discovered to have AIDS and HIV from the medicine—but how many died from the contaminated medicine overseas? According to some reports, at least 100,000 units of the medicine made their way to Argentina and Asia after Bayer stopped selling it in America.
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I quit buying from Smithfield when the Chinese government took over.
What about chinese ownership of Smithfield after 300 plus years of American ownership?