Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized – Not A Human Right

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  1. litwin

    litwin Well-Known Member

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    technologically advanced nations helped enough , results are well-known, Egypt, KSA, Bangladesh, Haiti , all African countries,etc.´d take responsibility in the own hands
     
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    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's like the air quality in Beijing:

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    are you saying that - we should now withdraw any further technical assistance ?

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    Wow.

    Just wow.

    Why don't they DO something about that?

    But I see them wear them here, where the air is not as bad as that. Maybe force of habit, esp if tourists.
     
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    according many African economists - YEs
     
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    How can this not be a criminal enterprise?

    [video=youtube;zctp7VGeUew]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpag e&v=zctp7VGeUew[/video]
     
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    Reminds me of London smog and a few other UK cities in my youth. I rememberr sitting on a bus - when the bus conducter walked in front of the bus - guiding the bus driver. through the smog. Too bad for those with respitory difficulties.
     
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    i dont know about UK but in Sweden everyone know that Nestlé is one of the worst MNC
     
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    Name them - /which "African economists " ?

    where's your evidence ?
     
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    The Chinese people can't do something about that because their overlords in government won't do anything about it.

    This and the Laogai are what a lot people conveniently overlook while they praise the "efficiency" of China's command economy...
     
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    I guess no different from distasteful/unpleasant conditions in your country where certain sectors of your nation cant do anything to solve your own domestic problems.

    Talon - clean your own house before commenting on conditions elsewhere.(wink)
     
  12. litwin

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    Dambisa Moyo, James Shikwati, etc. good reading http://www.economist.com/node/13272034

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    Dambisa Moyo, James Shikwati, etc. good reading http://www.economist.com/node/13272034
     
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    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Of course, the technologies that have helped clean our air and water were relatively undeveloped back when you and I were kids. There's no excuse for this level of pollution in this day and age...
     
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    Guess again. There's a world of difference between China and the United States.

    Practice what you preach, Marlowe. ;)

    For your information, we've come a long way in cleaning our own house since I was a kid. Back then, you couldn't swim or fish in the Potomac River. Today, the river is open to all kinds of recreational activity and commercial fishing has resumed.
     
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    All the more reasons that we should assist any other nations who are today experiencing the problems we've apparently solved , dont you agree. ?
     
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    Absolutely. However, I think it's reasonable to expect a cash-rich country like China to exercise its responsibility to invest its own money in those technologies. Poorer countries are much more deserving of subsidized assistance.
     
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    Of course - who said otherwise ?

    But , I do , dear boy - more than you know - perhaps you havent noticed - wot ?

    Glad to hear that - we've also had a degree of success with some of our rivers . (wink)

    But that still does'nt mean we should'nt assist other nations doing the same , does it ?

    ...
     
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    If it were down to me, I would work on the assumption that all MNC are engaged in criminal activity, and address them without delay, by all and every means possible.

    It's not better than the slave trade, with a fancy branding.
     
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    You did. Post #36.

    Stop kidding yourself, Marlowe. You spend far too much time commenting on the affairs of other countries (most particularly that little Jewish country in the ME that you're obsessed with) to tell people to confine their comments to their own countries. Very poor form, mate.

    And I'm glad to hear that environmental conditions in your own country are vastly improved.

    As for assisting other nations, I never opposed that. You must have me confused with someone who does (litwin, perhaps?).
     
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    I quite like a bit of caramac.

    Does that cause any suffering?
     
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    I see Nestle are up to their old tricks, and it involves water once again.

    Can anyone remember Nestle being responsible for the deaths of thousands of babies in developing countries when they went in aggressively promoting their infant feeding formula? They promoted their products to a point of stating breastfeeding isn't good for the baby and mothers must use their infant formula. Nestle also failed to give instructions on how to sterilise the local drinking water (in many cases safe drinking water wasn't even available). Infants died by the thousands of diarrhoea or related illnesses. Babies also died of malnutrition because mothers, due to poverty would use less of the formula just to make the formula last longer. Nestle targeted to poorest and the least educated to promote their products in developing nations.

    Nestle, nothing but corporate pirates and are also the focus of the longest running consumer boycott in corporate history.
     
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    The guy sounds like he's a major enemy of humanity. It's too bad his mother didn't abort the creep.
     
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    Yes mate, I covered it in a previous post + supplied a vid.

    :thumbsup:
     
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    He probably sounds like many other CEO's of major corporations, alas. In his own words, he said it, that the only goal for him is to make the company more profit. What he did not say, and what they never will admit, is they really mean 'profit at any price'. I truly fear for the future, so rampant have these companies been allowed to grow and bypass laws and ethics. A guy like him could do with being put in a very arid land, left with no water for a week, and see how he feels about that.
     
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    Yes but not only : food , clothing , housing , medical care , education , freedom of choice are all basic human rights.

    Capitalists are so perverted that they make us communists feel useless , what proletariat? everyone will revolt against those clowns .
    *In the case of water they have already done it in Bolivia if i remember correctly .
     

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