Our Exclusion Framework
We screen companies on two dimensions — what they make and how they behave. This dual framework catches companies that single-dimension screens miss.
2,598 companies excluded across 12 issue categories
Featured Issues
Animal Rights
We don't invest in companies that treat animals as commodities — factory farming, animal testing, exotic skins, entertainment. This isn't a peripheral screen. It's the original premise of the firm: avoiding preventable harm to living things requires taking animal consciousness seriously, not assuming it away.
Read more →Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance capitalism is extraction without consent — behavioral data harvested from people whose agreement was buried in terms they couldn't negotiate and can't revoke. We exclude companies whose revenue depends on this, and hold a high bar for any tech company where surveillance is a meaningful input. Until users can control, audit, and delete their data, this stays a core exclusion.
Read more →Palestine & Occupied Territories
We exclude companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories — settlement construction, military technology, surveillance infrastructure, discriminatory resource arrangements. The ICJ ruled this occupation unlawful in 2024. We don't wait for political resolution to stop funding what international law has condemned.
Read more →What ethical funds still hold
Percentage of screened values-aligned funds that hold at least one company we exclude, by category.
Based on 40 funds marketing themselves as ethical, sustainable, or values-aligned.
Palestine Solidarity
We exclude defense contractors supplying the IDF and firms profiting from the occupation.
Read our position →Surveillance
We exclude companies built on mass data collection, facial recognition, and government surveillance contracts. Growing regulatory risk from GDPR, the AI Act, and FTC enforcement makes this a financial position too.
Read our position →Animal Welfare
We exclude factory farming, animal testing, and animal-derived products. Thin margins, biosecurity risk, and commodity pricing with no moat. We've screened out factory farming since day one.
Read our position →Browse by Category
What companies make and how they behave — both matter.
Many ethical screening funds rely on third-party ratings. We maintain our own screens across both dimensions.
We’re in the process of migrating legacy screening records to our current taxonomy. Some categories may be incomplete until that work is finished.
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