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Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized
- CJefferson 13y agoThis article seems so bias it is almost information-free. One part: "In a video interview, Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe states that there has never been ‘one illness’ ever caused from the consumption of GMOs." The article implies that this is a terrible thing to have said.. is it? Sounds a perfectly reasonable, and also possibly true statement.
- waps 13y agoLet's hope it never becomes a human right. The first actual article mentioned in the human rights treaty contains the rights of freedom of religion and ideology. Saudi Arabia signed that treaty. So did China and even North Korea. What a joke. No teeth, and no teeth for the treaty means no rights for humans.
- Demetres 13y agoThe GM issue is a whole other discussion. I prefer to focus on the insanity of privatizing water. He claims that water is "just another foodstuff". But it's not. There is no alternative to water (or air). We can't just switch to juice or milk. We would literally die. Monsanto's view of the world is crooked and greedy (to the point of evil), though I think Peter Brabeck-Letmathe's takes the cake for now. If Letmathe's expressing Nestle's views as well then I'm never (willingly) buying any of their products again.
- a3n 13y agoThe list is long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestle#Products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestle#Products http://www.nestle.com/brands http://www.nestle.com/brands
- mooism2 13y agoTFA is an ideological rant. Which is not to say that the Nestle CEO was not also on an ideological rant, or hypocritical, or whatever. But I don't want to see this sort of propaganda on HN. It is unbecoming of us.