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Prior to embarking on the writing of this listicle we thought we knew just how cruel people could be to animals (what with the factory farming, habitat depletion and extinction-causing), but oh how we were wrong. In many cases, apparently, that cruelty comes with a copious helping of humiliation, which is how we get mental_floss’s [...]

When in doubt, we generally assume that corporations are evil. Aside from being clever marketers with a sense of humor, they are the most readily available symbol of everything that’s wrong with the world. An annual report by Ethisphere, though, claims that companies can be moral pioneers in their hometowns and across the globe. So, [...]