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Many blame Nestlé as the root cause of the Flint water crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/nestle-pays-200-a-year-to-bottle-water-near-flint

by klyrs 3y ago

Many blame Nestlé as the root cause of the Flint water crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/nestle-pays-200-a-year-to-bottle-water-near-flint-where-water-is-undrinkable https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/nestle-pays-... The question isn't if farming is technically worse on a global scale, it's whether each individual aquifer can sustain its output.

Aerroon 3y ago
That article is absurd. It opens with a mother talking about how she uses bottled water to bathe her child, because the tap water is polluted.Then it goes on to say that residents don't like that Nestle gets to bottle water in the area while their tap water sucks. I don't see how these two points are related. This sounds like a problem of incompetent politicians and officials that can't maintain water infrastructure. If anything they should be thankful companies like Nestle exist so that there's at least some source of clean drinking water for them since the city seems incapable of providing it.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  Nestlé has been under constant boycott for 46 years, and couldn't seem to stop abusing mothers and their young children. Flint or not, I will never purchase or use a Nestlé product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott N.B. Nestlé sold their bottling operations in these USA, and no longer owns Arrowhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Water
  - doublerabbit 3y ago
    Same. Recently discovered that Starbucks serves child-labour coffee owned by Nestle. [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-work-for-pittance-to-pick-coffee-beans-used-by-starbucks-and-nespresso https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-wo...
    - rafram 3y ago
      “The beans are also supplied to Nespresso, owned by Nestlé.” It doesn’t say that the supplier is itself owned by Nestle.
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by klyrs 3y ago

Aerroon 3y ago

That article is absurd. It opens with a mother talking about how she uses bottled water to bathe her child, because the tap water is polluted.Then it goes on to say that residents don't like that Nestle gets to bottle water in the area while their tap water sucks. I don't see how these two points are related. This sounds like a problem of incompetent politicians and officials that can't maintain water infrastructure. If anything they should be thankful companies like Nestle exist so that there's at least some source of clean drinking water for them since the city seems incapable of providing it.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Nestlé has been under constant boycott for 46 years, and couldn't seem to stop abusing mothers and their young children. Flint or not, I will never purchase or use a Nestlé product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott N.B. Nestlé sold their bottling operations in these USA, and no longer owns Arrowhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Water
- doublerabbit 3y ago
  Same. Recently discovered that Starbucks serves child-labour coffee owned by Nestle. [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-work-for-pittance-to-pick-coffee-beans-used-by-starbucks-and-nespresso https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-wo...
  - rafram 3y ago
    “The beans are also supplied to Nespresso, owned by Nestlé.” It doesn’t say that the supplier is itself owned by Nestle.

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