Shouldn't it be the responsibility of the corporate officers and the shareholders to decide such things?  I think it is a very risky expansion of government into having bureaucrats decide what is moral and what is not, then telling companies what they can buy and not buy.   Add to this more non-value added researching all the way down the supply chain for who does what in other countries, extensive record keeping and wasteful reporting.  This in itself increases costs and reduces share value.  What will the government mandate next, now that it can legislate morality?  A very dangerous precedence indeed.

The Indians have a saying according to which the real Earth's treasures lie deep into the Man's heart, so deep that no one dares to go there and dig them out. Probabbly on the same side, Klaus Werner-Lobo in his book Uns gehoert die Welt! Macht und Machenschaften der Multis clearly denounces the Multinationals' "profit for profit only" policies, irrespectively of the minerals they mine or the products they make. Even writers like Clive Cussler - refer his book Dark Watch on gold mining - have engaged thenselves on such long debated - and debatable - themes. If ours is the Earth and all treasures on and in it, they are ours, not of a few. Thank you.