Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized

[Deleted member 96356]

Camino, Dagoba and Sunspire all make fair trade chocolate chips. You can usually find fair trade chocolate chips online (e.g. Amazon or direct from manufacturer) or at larger health food stores.

These guys did a taste test:
http://www.neighborfoodblog.com/2013/02/one-the-great-fair-trade-chocolate-chip-experiment.html

We used to have a place that was on a well. The county finally offered some hook-ups and we looked into applying - talk about a cash grab. Besides the approx 8 grand in inspections, permits, etc. we would have been required to retrofit all our plumbing to that year's eco standards... even though the existing toilets had been put in ten years prior and were low flow... we would have had to put in new. Meanwhile, no homes with existing hook-ups were required to retrofit any of their plumbing or sprinkler systems. Plus the big hook-up fee itself. We said "skew it" and kept our free water with a back up generator for the pump. Now I wonder if Nestle secretly owned our water district.

 

[sorrell skye]

Two things essential to sustaining immediate life functions: Oxygen and H2O.

No corporation should be granted the right to *own* either of these.

The bottled water industry has gotten way out of hand. With home filters readily available in every industrialized nation, there are few circumstances, IMO, that make bottled water necessary.

IMO, Nestle (and other corporations) got into the bottled water industry due to consumer demand. Bottom line: If bottled water didn't sell, no one would sell it. One of the new trends is a brand of *vitamin water* (owned by Coco-Cola), and folks actually buy it because they've been led to believe that they're making a healthy choice! It's just another gimmick, but it's a profitable gimmick. If folks didn't buy it, Coco-Cola wouldn't sell it.

Over the years, I've read numerous articles that have exposed bottled water for what it actually is: filtered tap water. Oh - and sometimes a little carbonation or fruit flavor is added so that consumers believe they're getting something extra special. GMAB

I have no doubt that if consumers began demanding bottled oxygen (oooh - especially flavored or scented oxygen), that Nestle, or another corporation, would fulfill that demand.

I think it's important that we, as individual *consumers*, exercise responsibility in our choices, while we also collectively hold corporations accountable for their business practices. I also think it's important that we inform ourselves. In this internet age, information is readily available.

I carry a Kleen Kanteen with me when I know I'm going to be away from home for a few hours. My partner carries one of those silicone wrapped glass water bottles. At home, we have a water filter. We also try to avoid the use of plastic as much as possible. As far as I'm concerned, the over-consumption of bottled water & other single-use plastics adds to the landfill waste. We try to live by the motto of reduce, reuse, recycle, restore.

I think many folks in industrialized nations have grown much too reliant upon someone else to make life more seemingly convenient for them (us), often times oblivious to the long term consequences.

While corporations are accountable for their business decisions & practices, their business decisions & practices are based upon consumer demand. If and when consumers (individually and collectively) begin to make more responsible choices, corporations will follow the money by following consumer demand, wherever it leads. Unfortunately, I think far too many folks in industrialized nations allow themselves to be herded like sheep.

Bottled water (in it's various forms & brands) is an illusion that we, as consumers, have bought into, and I think it's created a monster. Time to pull back the curtain on that ole wizard and expose him for the fraud that he is.

 

[JeannaT]

I'm always VERY uncomfortable when political action groups with an agenda produce materials and very obviously cut parts out of an interview that were crucial to understanding what he was saying.

When he got to the part where there is a question, should water be privatized, he states there is one extreme answer that all water should be free of charge to everyone, and then there are the other positions that . . . CUT. Cut to much later in the interview where he states that to create work you must work, and the belief that there is only so much work to go around so people should be limited to 35 hours a week, and then he goes on to say we as a globe are richer than we ever have been, and are living healthier lives than ever before, and so we should be joyful.

What was cut? The entirety of his opinion, frankly, on how to get clean safe water supplies to those who don't have it/can't afford it right now.

Why cut that unless they are clearly trying to change the perception of what he said and hide what his actual opinion is?

 

[danzn16]

From your link:



Read more: http://www.trueactivist.com/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right-should-be-privatized/

Unbelievable...if the corp was really a person it would would be arrested!

Wow I did not know this. Definitely not purchasing any Nestle products from here on out.

And the fact that he said water is not a human right makes me truly think he really is a sociopath. People die every day from not having clean water in developing countries. Nothing that is an absolute for sustaining life is a "product". I hope he gets hit by a meteor or something awful, IDK (jk...kinda, lol). :stormingmad:

 

[kaRN]

I'm always VERY uncomfortable when political action groups with an agenda produce materials and very obviously cut parts out of an interview that were crucial to understanding what he was saying.

When he got to the part where there is a question, should water be privatized, he states there is one extreme answer that all water should be free of charge to everyone, and then there are the other positions that . . . CUT. Cut to much later in the interview where he states that to create work you must work, and the belief that there is only so much work to go around so people should be limited to 35 hours a week, and then he goes on to say we as a globe are richer than we ever have been, and are living healthier lives than ever before, and so we should be joyful.

What was cut? The entirety of his opinion, frankly, on how to get clean safe water supplies to those who don't have it/can't afford it right now.

Why cut that unless they are clearly trying to change the perception of what he said and hide what his actual opinion is?

"We" aren't the 1% that are richer or living longer. Lets see how much joy he finds living in squalor like the 99% he sells his chemical 'food' too. :twocents:

 

[Show Me]

I'm always VERY uncomfortable when political action groups with an agenda produce materials and very obviously cut parts out of an interview that were crucial to understanding what he was saying.

When he got to the part where there is a question, should water be privatized, he states there is one extreme answer that all water should be free of charge to everyone, and then there are the other positions that . . . CUT. Cut to much later in the interview where he states that to create work you must work, and the belief that there is only so much work to go around so people should be limited to 35 hours a week, and then he goes on to say we as a globe are richer than we ever have been, and are living healthier lives than ever before, and so we should be joyful.

What was cut? The entirety of his opinion, frankly, on how to get clean safe water supplies to those who don't have it/can't afford it right now.

Why cut that unless they are clearly trying to change the perception of what he said and hide what his actual opinion is?

I don't think this CEO realizes that in America 35 hour work week does not get you the benefits you need like health insurance, sick pay, vacation pay and less money per hour to support your family. Just because we are not starving in some third world village does not make me want to give these 'Masters of the Universe' control over the very water we drink.

The rich seem to get richer and richer and the poor get poorer.

IMO he was sending a subliminal message to us all. Let the corporations make a lot of money controlling the water supply. And as he is a member of the ERT, he stands to make a ton of money. What starts out as a 'humanitarian effort' often ends up as a simple publicity campaign to disguise the greed of these CEOs.

You are far kinder to him than I can be and I respect your opinion!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brabeck-Letmathe

Mr. Brabeck-Letmathe is on the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group, L'Oréal, and ExxonMobil. He is also a member of ERT (European Round Table of Industrialists) and a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. His earnings in 2006 were approximately 14 million Swiss francs (9 million Euro).

 

[my_tee_mouse]

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And as he is a member of the ERT,

ERT = Evil Resource Thieves?

 

[JustJudy]

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The wiki page lists Nestle's brands worldwide. Good luck keeping all of these in mind next time you go shopping:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestlé_brands
Of course the CEO has these attitudes about ....

BBM Nestle has 8000+ brands. Water Companies currently owned by Nestle are:
Aberfoyle
Alaçam (Turkey)
Al Manhal (Middle East)
Aqua D'Or
Aqua Mineral (Poland)
Aqua Pod
Aquarel (water)(Spain)
Acqua Panna
Aquapod
Aqua Spring (Greece)
Arctic (Poland)
Arrowhead (USA)
Baraka (Egypt)
Buxton (UK)
Cachantun (Chile)
Calistoga (USA)
Carola (France)
Ciego Montero (Cuba)
Charmoise (Belgium)
Contrex (France)
Cristalp (Switzerland)
Da Shan YunNan Spring (China)
Dar Natury (Poland)
Deep Spring (China)
Deer Park (USA)
Eco de los Andes (Argentine)
Erikli (Turkey)
Frische Brise (Germany)
Fürst Bismarck (Germany)
Gerber (Mexico)
Ghadeer (Jordan)
Glaciar (Argentina)
Hépar (France)
Hidden Spring (Philippines)
Henniez (Switzerland)
Ice Mountain (USA)
Κorpi (Greece)
La Vie (Vietnam)
Levissima (Italy)
Los Portales (Cuba)
Minéré (Thailand)
Montclair (Canada)
Nałęczowianka (Poland)
Nestlé Aquarel
Pure Life/Pureza Vital/Vie Pure
Nestlé Selda (Portugal)
Nestlé Vera (Italy)
Neuselters (Germany)
Ozarka (USA)
Pejo (Italy)
S. Pellegrino (Italy)
Perrier (France)
Petrópolis (Brazil)
Plancoët (France)
Poland Spring (USA)
class action suit re Poland Springs -false advertising http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaar...ottled-tap-water-as-naturally-spring-sourced/

Porvenir (Chile)
Powwow
Quézac (France)
Recoaro (Italy)
Saint-Lambert (France)
Sainte-Alix (France)
San Bernardo (Italy)
San Pellegrino (Italy) [yikes! Not my Pellegreno too?]
Santa Bárbara (Brazil)
Santa Maria (Mexico)
São Lourenço (Brazil)
Sohat (Lebanon)
Springs (Saudi Arabia)
Theodora (Hungary)
Valvert (Belgium)
Viladrau (Spain)
Vittel (France)
Water Line (South Korea)
Waterman (China)
Zephyrhills (USA)


And that's just their water! Sheesh! Avoiding Monsento's (misspelled on purpose by me) genetically modified seed monopoly (80% of US corn alone) all ready makes my weekly marketting a maze.... LOL

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/b...nt-gene-altered.html?ref=monsantocompany&_r=0

 

[JustJudy]

So should we start boycotting Nestle?

I already boycott Procter and Gamble, and Walmart, what's one more company to avoid? Haha

LOL....maybe. I all ready boycott Conagra & thought I was boycotting Nestle since learning of the '77 baby formula thing, but 'til today I had no idea 8000 other brands are Nestle, too.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ConAgra_brands

 

[Steely Dan]

LOL....maybe. I all ready boycott Conagra & thought I was boycotting Nestle since learning of the '77 baby formula thing, but 'til today I had no idea 8000 other brands are Nestle, too.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ConAgra_brands

Jeez, we almost couldn't live without 'em. Our dark overlords!!

 

[danzn16]

LOL....maybe. I all ready boycott Conagra & thought I was boycotting Nestle since learning of the '77 baby formula thing, but 'til today I had no idea 8000 other brands are Nestle, too.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ConAgra_brands

And almost all of them are highly preserved crap we shouldn't be eating anyway. No loss to me!


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[JustJudy]

And almost all of them are highly preserved crap we shouldn't be eating anyway. No loss to me!


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Amen!

 

[LinasK]

So should we start boycotting Nestle?

I already boycott Procter and Gamble, and Walmart, what's one more company to avoid? Haha

Nooooo! I love their chocolate!

 

[Ray_of_hope]

Back in the eighties, IIRC, Nestle was sending people dressed like doctors and nurses into the poorer areas of Africa to convince women that Nestle formula was better for their children than breastmilk. That was a long, long time ago and a different CEO, but they've been dirty before.

SD, Wasn't there also a recall on Nestle formula around that same time and they started selling the recalled formula to other countries? I've never gotten over that :stormingmad:

 

[21merc7]

Since I live in the U.S. I already have to pay to have water. It is not free. Which is why I don't understand people buying bottled water on top of that, unless they live in one of those places where the water ignites. Holy Moly!

Instead of Dune, I was thinking Solient Green, but maybe I am exposed to way too much poverty and crime because of it, rising prices, frenzied minds. S O L I E N T G R E E N!

 

[Donamena]

If you live in the ass end of nowhere, where algae forms on dog bowls in 24 hrs & there's bacteria in the water (as per Louisiana MORTALITY index, you have to buy it. Filters, etc to take all of that bacteria out run @ $5,000 depending upon the size of your home.

I think I remember reading somewhere that the American Nestlé comes out of a faucet in a parking lot. I remember the Perrier scare some years ago, so I switched to Pellegrino. Tossing it all out on my tomatoes...lovely dears.

Would it at all possible to have that many plants, all over the world, producing that much 'pure' water? We drink distilled. Taste like nothing, but at least I can flush the sweat out of my eyes & not worry about dying from a nasty bacteria. There's vibrio in th Gulf water, so if you cut yourself fishing & rinse your hand in the water, yes, chirren, flesh eating bacteria.

 

[Steely Dan]

If you live in the ass end of nowhere, where algae forms on dog bowls in 24 hrs & there's bacteria in the water (as per Louisiana MORTALITY index, you have to buy it. Filters, etc to take all of that bacteria out run @ $5,000 depending upon the size of your home.

I think I remember reading somewhere that the American Nestlé comes out of a faucet in a parking lot. I remember the Perrier scare some years ago, so I switched to Pellegrino. Tossing it all out on my tomatoes...lovely dears.

Would it at all possible to have that many plants, all over the world, producing that much 'pure' water? We drink distilled. Taste like nothing, but at least I can flush the sweat out of my eyes & not worry about dying from a nasty bacteria. There's vibrio in th Gulf water, so if you cut yourself fishing & rinse your hand in the water, yes, chirren, flesh eating bacteria.

Check the label. I don't think you're supposed to drink distilled water.

 

[Donamena]

Check the label. I don't think you're supposed to drink distilled water.

?? I never knew that.?? Then what do you drink if you're in a hell hole of a holler?

 

[TrackerSam]

?? I never knew that.?? Then what do you drink if you're in a hell hole of a holler?

Holy water.

 

[Steely Dan]

?? I never knew that.?? Then what do you drink if you're in a hell hole of a holler?

I learned not to drink distilled water while I was working at the hospital pharmacy. I just double checked and came across these articles.

http://www.mercola.com/article/water/distilled_water.htm

...Fasting using distilled water can be dangerous because of the rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure. Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.

Distilled water is an active absorber and when it comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it acidic. The more distilled water a person drinks, the higher the body acidity becomes.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Distilled water, being essentially mineral-free, is very aggressive, in that it tends to dissolve substances with which it is in contact. Notably, carbon dioxide from the air is rapidly absorbed, making the water acidic and even more aggressive. Many metals are dissolved by distilled water."

The most toxic commercial beverages that people consume (i.e. cola beverages and other soft drinks) are made from distilled water. Studies have consistently shown that heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) spill huge amounts of calcium, magnesium and other trace minerals into the urine.

The more mineral loss, the greater the risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.

A growing number of health care practitioners and scientists from around the world have been advocating the theory that aging and disease is the direct result of the accumulation of acid waste products in the body.

There is a great deal of scientific documentation that supports such a theory. A poor diet may be partially to blame for the waste accumulation....

http://www.livestrong.com/article/372479-what-are-the-dangers-of-drinking-distilled-water/


...Background

Distilled water is actually boiled until it evaporates. The vapor is condensed back into liquid form. The distillation process robs the water of all minerals and impurities. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, carbon dioxide in the air dissolves in distilled water which makes its pH acidic - usually between five and six tenths and seven. To neutralize distilled water, they suggest adding 1/8 teaspoon baking soda or a drop of ammonia. Some believe that drinking water that has an acidic pH is dangerous to your health.

Mineral Deficiencies

Drinking distilled water robs your body of its natural source for many minerals essential to good health. This results in mineral loss in the body with increases your risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, hypertension, coronary artery disease and premature aging.

Tooth Decay

Because distilled water does not contain any fluoride, dentists are beginning to see an increased number of cavities in young children who drink bottled water. Consumers believe bottled, distilled water is safer than the water supplies in their local communities....