Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water
on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should
the poor who cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from
starvation due to their lack of financial wealth?
According to the
former CEO and now Chairman of the largest food product manufacturer in the
world, corporations should own every drop of water on the planet — and you’re
not getting any unless you pay up.
Watch the video
below for yourself:
The company
notorious for sending out hordes of ‘internet warriors’ to defend the company
and its actions online in comments and message boards (perhaps we’ll find some
below) even takes a firm stance behind Monsanto’s GMOs and their ‘proven
safety’.
In fact, the former
Nestle CEO actually says that his idea of water privatization is very similar
to Monsanto’s GMOs. 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 way in which this sociopath clearly has zero
regard for the human race outside of his own wealth and the development of
Nestle, who has been caught funding attacks against GMO labeling, can be
witnessed when watching and listening to his talk on the issue.
This is a company
that actually goes into struggling rural areas and extracts the groundwater for
their bottled water products, completely destroying the water supply of the
area without any compensation. In fact, they actually make rural areas in the
United States foot the bill. As reported on by Corporate Watch, Nestle and
former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe have a long history of disregarding public
health and abusing the environment to take part in the profit of an astounding
$35 billion in annual profit from water bottle sales alone.
The report states:
“Nestlé production of mineral water involves the abuse of vulnerable water
resources. In the Serra da Mantiqueira region of Brazil, home to the “circuit
of waters” park whose groundwater has a high mineral content and medicinal
properties, over-pumping has resulted in depletion and long-term damage.”
Nestle has also come under fire over the assertion that they are actually conducting
business with massive slavery rings.
Another Corporate
Watch entry details: “In 2001, Nestlé faced criticism for buying cocoa from the
Ivory Coast and Ghana, which may have been produced using child slaves.[58]
According to an investigative report by the BBC, hundreds of thousands of
children in Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo were being purchased from their
destitute parents and shipped to the Ivory Coast, to be sold as slaves to cocoa
farms.”
So is water a human
right, or should it be owned by big corporations? Well, if water is not here
for all of us, then perhaps air should be owned by major corporations as well.
And as for crops, Monsanto is already working hard to make sure their monopoly
on our staple crops and beyond is well situated. It should really come as no
surprise that this Nestle Chairman fights to keep Monsanto’s GMOs alive and
well in the food supply, as his ideology lines right up with that of Monsanto.
