<story><title>Cargill: The Worst Company in the World</title><url>https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brianpgordon</author><text>They&amp;#x27;ll do exactly as much damage as they can get away with. If there&amp;#x27;s no regulation standing in their way, or the potential profits outweigh the consequences, &lt;i&gt;of course&lt;/i&gt; they&amp;#x27;ll continue their malfeasance. I don&amp;#x27;t know why this is surprising to anyone. The nature of any corporation is to act in its own self-interest. I guess Mighty Earth is doing what they can, but it&amp;#x27;s like raking leaves in the forest, in the middle of a raging wildfire. The only way that anything is going to change is through effective regulation and credible enforcement. Trying to wheedle and cajole Cargill into growing a conscience is a manifest exercise in futility.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cargill: The Worst Company in the World</title><url>https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, this may sound awkward but I&amp;#x27;m going to say it anyway: this is what globalization enables.  The very fact of sourcing things as elemental as the food you eat, from the other side of the planet (whichever side has the laxest environmental, health, and safety rules), makes this easier.  It is easier to live far away from the things your company does, and the people it does them to, if they&amp;#x27;re on a different continent than you.  Moreover, by its very nature globalization enables regulatory arbitrage, so you can live in a country with relatively good EHS rules, and produce in a country with bad or no EHS rules.&lt;p&gt;There is a tradeoff between producing wealth, and trashing your environment, and I don&amp;#x27;t judge too harshly the people who want to worry about carcinogens later, once they&amp;#x27;ve got enough to eat that they won&amp;#x27;t starve to death.  But that tradeoff used to happen within each country.  When it was poor, the production was low, and as their ability to wreck their environment scaled up, so did their wealth to afford not to.&lt;p&gt;Only globalization allows companies like this to descend with 1st World money on places with 3rd world EHS rules.  Cargill and its ilk exist, because we changed the rules to make it easier for them to do this.</text></comment>