In ‘The Informant’ the main unethical issues that are portrayed throughout the film is price-fixing and stealing from the company. Price-fixing is when a business such as ADM, comes together with its customers and collude on a fixed price for their goods or services and this is counted as illegal and unethical as it demands the customers of the business to create a higher expense to themselves whether or not they find the product of a high quality or not. Thus, in the movie, representatives of ADM went out to meet with their competitors in order to agree on fixing the price on their goods.
Stealing from the company, or embezzlement, is highly unethical. Especially for a well-earning scientist such as Mark. Mark has embezzled over $11.5 Million from the company for the last few years that he has been working at ADM. This is counted as a crime as it is counted as