Water Can't Be Free - Water Not a Right, Should Be Given a 'Market Value' and Privatized

Water Can't Be Free - Water Not a Right, Should Be Given a 'Market Value' and Privatized

Jul 28, 2019

Nestle Chairman: Water Not a Right, Should Be Given a 'Market Value' and Privatized

This was a stunning interview, in the 2005 documentary We Feed the World, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, now former chairman and CEO of the Nestle Group, and former chairman of Formula One. He says, water is not a human right... He also says, organic food aren't good.

They didn't get around to asking him about slave labor being used to confiscate cocoa beans and other resources in Africa and other areas around the world for Nestle products.

He was the Chairman of one of the biggest corporations and the largest food product manufacturer in the world, believes corporations should own all the water on the planet, and no one should be allowed to have access to it unless they pay.

He also states that GMOs have never caused illnesses despite hundreds of independent studies showing otherwise. So, is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and the elite?

Should the poor who cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from starvation due to their lack of financial wealth?

The company notorious for sending out hordes of 'internet paid trolls' to defend the company and its actions online in comments and message boards, 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. He 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.

"In 2001, Nestlé faced criticism for buying cocoa from the Ivory Coast and Ghana, which may have been produced using child slaves. 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.

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