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    21 year ago

    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”.

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      221 year ago

      That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution.

      It seems like he said that to me.

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        21 year ago

        Yes but… you got it. That was in the sense of, I can say fuck you all and take as much water as I want for my pool and to clean my car and it would be OK because I have an inconditional right to it…

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      That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution

      Sounds very much like saying that it’s not a human right…

      Personally, I believe it’s better to give a foodstuff a value so that we’re all aware it has its price

      Personally, I believe that his personal beliefs are absolutely disgusting and an indicator of why the world is a miserable place for more than half of its human population.

      Nestlé is no more evil than any food company that is bigger than your local ethnic market

      Categorically false. They steal drinking water from the people, make it less healthy than it were and then sell it back to them at a huge profit. They also kill babies.

      Just say “fuck all of them”.

      That’s not viable in an interconnected capitalist consumerist world. What IS viable is to boycott the worst of the worst, such as Koch Industries, Nestlé and Foxconn Technology Group.