privatization of water....

Other than Costco's CEO, every CEO is just a massive shitburger.

Also reminder that the US is the only country in the UN to vote against food being a human right.

USA 🤝 Nestlé

Reminder that as much as I am not a Nestlé fan, he never said that.

He said :

“Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution. The other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it’s better to give a foodstuff a value so that we’re all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water, and there are many different possibilities there.”

Also, the whole "raahaahaha Nestlé is evil" was propulsed by Coca-Cola and Pepsico because they hated that a non-US company had rights on water in the US. (Water that they wanted to sell in the first place.) Nestlé is no more evil than any food company that is bigger than your local ethnic market. They just suck like every company. Don't buy the propaganda and think that you are better from buying that brand rather than that one. Just say "fuck all of them".

Time to get the guillotines.

They also said "Chocolate without slavery? That's unpossible!"

Yeah, or well, in theory their formula works, but given the realities of developing countries they knew they were killing babies when they introduced it there.

Didn't matter, made profits, line went up.

My comment was going to be. For poisoning a bunch of African children.

Really ought not buy their cat food though, at least not to feed cats. It’s horrible from a nutritional perspective.

Bad cat food is a major factor to feline obesity. Chonkers are not cute.

If you think it’s hard in developed countries(im trying not to make an assumption about where you live but assume it’s considered a developed country) you should see the issue in other countries. Maggi is one of the most popular brands in a lot of South Easy Asia; you see their sauces in most restaurants and the instant noodles are considered the best.

And the whole Japanese Kit Kat thing. I’ve seen store in SEA that have tons of different Kit Kats forms Japan because they have tons of flavours. Obviously this is also popular.

Nestle has dug themselves an entrenched position in SEA and will not give it up.

That's what you get if companies have no limit to growth.

Buy Costco brand. I’m assuming they have cat food, been buying my dog food there for years.

There are a few inaccuracies and simplifications here. Lactalis is independent from Nestlé, though they have a co-entreprise for dairy. For l'Oréal, it's a bit disingenuous to link both here because massive companies like that have a lot of mutual participations. And KitKat is manufactured by Hershey's in the US I think.

That being said, Lactalis is equally shitty so you can avoid it anyway. And the same goes for l'Oréal. I don't know about Hershey's but I could bet.

Good point:

Or that they use child slave labor.*

*Note: they don't own slaves just contract work out to slave owners

I'm amazed at how few people are aware of this, Fuck Nestlé!