2009 World's Most Ethical Companies

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Here is the list of the most ethical companies in the world according to Ethisphere.

Honeywell International
The Aerospace Corporation
Harris Corporation
Nike
Patagonia
BMW
Cummins
Johnson Controls
Toyota Motor
HSBC
Rabobank
Standard Chartered Bank
Westpac Banking Corporation
Accenture
Pitney Bowes
Dun & Bradstreet
Ecolab
Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Ricoh Company
Xerox
Oracle Corporation
salesforce.com
Symantec
Henkel
Kao
Mattel
SC Johnson & Son
Unilever
General Electric
Freescale Semiconductor
Intel
Texas Instruments
Duke Energy
FPL Group
Sempra Energy
Statkraft
Wisconsin Energy
CRH
Fluor
CH2M Hill
Holcim
Waste Management
American Express
The Hartford Financial Services
The Principal Financial Group
Danone
General Mills
Kellogg Company
PepsiCo
Stonyfield Farm
Sodexo
Safeway
Trader Joe’s
International Paper
Stora Enso
Svenska Cellulosa (SCA)
Weyerhaeuser
Target
Cleveland Clinic
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Premier
Accor
Marriott International
Caterpillar
Eaton Corporation
John Deere
Milliken
Rockwell Automation
Aflac
Sompo
Swiss Re
Google
Zappos.com
Thomson Reuters
Time Warner
Baxter International
Becton Dickinson
Royal Philips
Flint Hills Resources
Petro-Canada
AstraZeneca
Novartis
Novo Nordisk
Novozymes
Jones Lang LaSalle
McDonald’s
Starbucks
Best Buy
Gap
IKEA
Marks & Spencer
Ten Thousand Villages
Avaya
Cisco Systems
T-Mobile
Vodafone
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
United Parcel Service

I can't help thinking that there is something wrong with the list. There must be better candidates than these?

Surely a small, company that nurtures its local community, provides local jobs, keeps its carbon footprint low by staying local, that works to reduce waste, and values its employees by offering a family friendly environment and postive workplace culture would be a more ethical choice than large multinational banks and corporations producing junk food, automobiles, and chemical products?