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A little history is appropriate here. This link is to the BASF website. It glosses over but admits that Aushwitz was a BASF work camp.
And BASF was part of the IG Farben, which produced an insecticide called “Zyklon B”, which also happens to work wonderfully in gas chambers.
But let’s be honest here, it’s not rust BASF is particularly bad, that’s just capitalism.
To be fair, Basache did invent Zykon B, but some managers split off their own company that sold it to the National Socialists to do the unthinkable murders.
But working/starving the millions of prisoners to death was on Badache.
I mean I hope folks signing on for these demands know that they’re actually asking them to quit China entirely, because there is ZERO chance Beijing will let a company that had been doing business in Xinjiang give air to the story of the uyghur genocide by withdrawing from there after being called out for being complicit in it and then still do business anywhere else in China
BASF famously produced Zyklon-B, which was the gas used to kill prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.
Well looks like I need to step up my game and attempt to completely eliminate BASF products from my purchases. It will be challenging, since they make the things that make all the other things. The evil ones, anyway. I’m looking into apps to help me identify where they have been meddling. Has anyone run into any good responsible consumer communities on Lemmy, or anything like that?
EDIT: I did the thing
Fuck nestle communities exist on here and the old place.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The German chemicals producer BASF “appears to be implicated in gross abuses” of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and should withdraw from the Chinese province, a group of politicians from around the world have said.
The group made the allegation in a letter to BASF’s chair, Martin Brudermüller, on Monday, after the German media outlets Der Spiegel and ZDF published a joint investigation on Friday.
The letter sent on Monday, signed by more than 30 politicians, said: “The reports [in the German media] indicate the shocking degree to which your company appears to be implicated in gross abuses of the Uyghur and other predominantly Turkic minorities in the region.
Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim Turkic ethnic group, have long had a fractious relationship with Beijing, which accuses many of them of wanting to break away from Chinese rule.
Its signatories included the German MEP Reinhard Bütikofer and the British MP Iain Duncan Smith, as well as legislators from Ukraine, New Zealand, Canada and Belgium, among other countries.
Sarah Champion, a British Labour MP and IPAC member, said: “Companies cannot pretend to be surprised that atrocities are being committed against Uyghurs and other minorities in the region.
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Unsurprising. Germany LOVES moral posturing while supporting the worst kinds of people for money behind the scenes. Or straight up supporting them if they can’t hide it.
