Sinsull, in answer to the original question. There is one thing the company has done that has meant a lot to some very traumatized people, if I recall correctly (it may have been Gwaltney but I'm pretty sure it was Smithfield). A Virginia plant gave immediate employment to a bunch of Bosnian refugees. Tough ugly jobs, but simplistic work to keep body and soul together while they worked on the language barrier problem, and now they have transitioned into building trades etc. Between church sponsorships and employers like this, a lot of new starts for people who desperately needed them.

Which does not excuse them from any of their bad policies. But since you asked...

And I agree, we stupid consumers need some lists to work from. For example, I know Eggland's Best doesn't feed their chickens chickendoo, so I buy their stuff.   

But I don't know which bacon producer is a decent corporate citizen, if any.   The only weapon we have is to reject a product, based on hard information.