Listen, I hate shitty corporations too, but if you read the article it’s the government who shut down the business because of mold growth in the factory.
Anyway, just saying there’s some nuance here. Like maybe if a government shuts down a business like this there needs to be some negotiation and an exit plan.
"The value on the market [was] about three million dollars, but they would not let us sell it. And for that reason, we just [left] it there.”"
I think that's the point OP is pointing out, for better or worse (for what it's worth I believe "He suggests that a prior conflict with the CFIA over product labeling motivated them to close the factory before the inspection began" may be correct).
A company should have plans for cleaning up their product before just walking away and leaving other people to clean up their mess.
Maybe it's rather naive of me, but that's what I believe.
Far more companies just go belly up and leave whatever is left lying around. If we are lucky the land or whatever supports someone else tearing it down.
In software we build without considering how to sunset or deprecate. But perhaps we would build differently if we did so.
Anyway, just saying there’s some nuance here. Like maybe if a government shuts down a business like this there needs to be some negotiation and an exit plan.