Some of the world’s most celebrated companies actually have some dirty secrets, hidden behind the bright, cheery emotion they display in public…

ILLUSTRIOUS COMPANIES, such as Nestle and Amazon have been found to be concealing an alarmingly high amount of secrets behind our backs.

Nestle, a worldwide company that manufactures chocolate bars, hot-chocolate-powder, teas and other hot drinks, have been accused of treating African farmers badly, and not giving fair wages. Some farmers in Africa have reported that ‘Nestle was misusing the farmers’ and ‘overworking farmers, but underpaying them.’ Nestle claims that they are ‘working to make things better,’ but if this secret truly unleashed, perhaps Nestle wouldn’t have so many eager customers…

Unsurprisingly, McDonalds is on the list of ‘hiding-secrets-behind-our-backs companies.’ Numerous groups of foodies (and even restaurant critics) have concerns about the quality of the food, and the conditions in which it’s made.

McDonalds is known for their ‘absolutely delicious’ food, and many people blindly eat it every day for dinner or lunch, not giving a single thought to the healthiness of the food. But actually, they dunk every dish - Chicken McNuggets, Big Mac, Fishburger - in large quantities of… oil. Not sumptuous olive oil, or the slightly healthier vegetable oil - the extra-unhealthy, repulsively-yellow oil.

To outline the fact that their products have a very low quality status, we overviewed a few documents within the McDonalds Photography Studio.

Have you ever gone to a McDonalds unit and seen an advertisement with a picture of a perfect burger on it? Well, NTS looked into it, and McDonalds spends an average of 4 hours to create (and apply computer effects) the burger that is used in each advertisement. On a real McDonalds burger, they don’t spend any time perfecting it - in fact, on average, they spend 60 seconds on each burger.

Additionally, many people have criticized McDonalds for the way they’ve treated animals. McDonald’s imports meat from large factory farms, where animals are squeezed together in large bunches, in very tight spaces.

Moreover, other people inculpate McDonalds for not being very environmentally-friendly. For instance, McDonalds produces countless amounts of waste, since they use lots of one-use packaging, including paper cups, boxes and more. This rubbish ends up in landfills, therefore trash-polluting the world a bit more, and therefore ruining the environment.

Next up: Coca-Cola. A revolutionary soda company, that invented many of everybody’s favorite drinks, including Fanta, Sprite, FuseTea, SmartWater and of course, Coca-Cola. However, the company endures endless criticism for the health (and environmental) impacts that they induce into the world.

In an effort to captivate the consumer, Coca-Cola includes very high amounts of sugar (or sweetener, depending on which type of Coke), but there’s a major downside: it’s super unhealthy. In addition to this, Coca-Cola includes high-fructose corn syrup (another very unhealthy ingredient), artificial flavors, and a large dose of coloring, which are all made from chemicals that could have a major impact on the future of your life.

Once again, unsurprisingly, Coca-Cola is blamed for a large share of plastic waste in the world. Since billions of humans are addicted to their extensive variety of soft drinks, and most of their packaging for the drink is plastic, it means that millions of tons of plastic is being wasted.

In response to some people’s angry accusations against Coca-Cola’s heavy (but bad) impact on the environment, the company pledged to reduce the amount of plastic they use, but many experts say that Coca-Cola needs to address the environment more.

Furthermore, many people are concerned about Coca-Cola’s marketing. Similarly to other food and drink companies, Coca-Cola spends a good deal of revenues on advertising, which is fine - except for the fact that some of the ads are directed at children. Making it seem like it’s the most glorious drink on Earth is a good way to captivate kids and other soda drinkers, but the impact of the sugary drink proves to heavily decrease kids’ health.

Amongst the most famous companies to ever exist, we have Amazon on this list. Becoming one of the first online retailers to sell ‘everything’ - and actually, they’ve lived up to their promises. From books to electronics, silky pajamas and potted plants, Amazon literally offers everything, which means they can generate billions of revenues per year.

However, Amazon has been blamed for their impact on small business, and how they treat staff members. Staff at Amazon have confirmed that, unless they were in a high position, such as CEO or Chief Designer, they receive low wages, long hours, and very stressful working environments.

Their impact on small business is claimed to be ‘ruining any shot of business,’ since they are dominating the market.

And finally, ExxonMobil, a major oil & gas company, is on this list. ExxonMobil burns large quantities of fossil fuels, like oil and gas, which produces greenhouse gases. Our  atmosphere helps regulate the Earth’s temperature, by reflecting sunlight, but greenhouse gases trap the sunlight, ruining our atmosphere, causing global warming. Fossil Fuels are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases, and therefore the majority of global warming.

ExxonMobil has also been inculpated for contributing in Climate Change Denial campaigns, and for deliberately suppressing information on their impact on the environment.

It’s extremely important to choose companies that have fair labor treatment, good working conditions, good impacts on the environment and not buying any products that include harmful chemicals, such as artificial colorings and flavorings.

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