Waterscandal

Nestle is also the world’s leading producer of bottled water and you’ve likely seen it in your local chain supermarket with pictures of fresh springs,lakes,andmountains.However, it turns out that no matter the fancy imagery the labels have, almost all the water in the packaged bottles of Nestlé is from the ground. In states such as Maine and Texas, there are absolute capture laws which allow companies to pump out as much water as they’d like so long as they owned the land over it. Thisisnot so much a fault of Nestle’s as the government are the ones allowing for this to happen apart from when in California where it is much drier and do not have these absolute capture laws, nestle was found 54 million gallons above their permit which wasn’t even valid as it had expired 20 years prior.

According to Nestle Pure life, they sell their water for $2 a bottle in America and £2.15 for pack of 12 in the UK. To us, this may seem like no big deal but, in a third world country where people only make a fewcents a day, it’s everything. Nestle persuaded the World’s Water Council to change drinking water to a need rather than a right. If water were a right, then it would have to be supplied freely, but since it’s a need, water companies can sell it for as much as they want and make an enormous profit. Companies such as nestle run off this inelastic demand and take advantage of it. This is clearly dangerous for the environment and unethical as it is clear that Nestle are more looking forward to enjoying higher revenues than actually providingpeoplewithsomethingsustainable.

Child labour

KitKat,smarties,milkybar,aeroandmoreare amongst some of the famous chocolates this problem and create ethically correct products by the year 2005 after the world coca foundation promised to do their best. Yet they missed that deadline and have missedeverysubsequentmulti-yeardeadline they've set themselves since. Bowing to public outcry and threats of boycott Nestle did do something about this in 2010. They began producing their fairtrade venture where all the chocolate, now slave free, could be seen sporting an independently verified fair trade sticker and be seen to be doing something about the problem. produced by nestle and consumed all across the world. Chocolate is of course a very popularproductoftheirsbutduringthe2000s, the company, along with several other chocolate companies, was accused of using child labour to produce cocoa for their chocolates.Thecompanyclaimedthatmostof the unpaid child labour involved in chocolate production is done by children working on their parents' farms. Because the farmers cannot afford school and need all the working hands possible to afford food, shelter, and other necessities.

However, as of 2020 they decided to conclude their partnership with fairtrade to focus on their new partnership with the rainforest alliance and work on sustainable cocoafarming asin2020 itwas clearly more fashionable to appear environmentally correct than ethically correct and apparently you can't do both. Instead, there need to be laws against child labour plus taxes against companiesthathavechildrenemployeesand subsidies for companies that do not employ children.

Where most of the company’s guilt lies is with taking water sources from the countries where people are forced to drink dirty water as their clean water sources are acquired by Nestlé for their bottled water plants. In 2013, the corporation began diverting abundant clean water from Pakistani locals and using it for their factories, leaving the population with no other choice except to drink sewage and sludge water. Yet this isn’t surprising if you know that in 2005, the former CEO Peter BrabeckLetmathesaid on video that water isn’t a humanrightandshouldbeprivatisedfor corporations such as his.

However, the reasoning is absurd because Nestlé is the one that pays them, thus they should do something to help the farmers who work for them. Nestlé claimed to get rid of

This would be advantages as child laborers take jobs away from adults/parents because they are cheap and sometimes 'free'. If there were more opportunities for adults to have jobs, their families will benefit greatly with the extra income. On the other hand, companies may lose their profit because child labour is cheap and adult wages are much higher, yet for a company as big as nestle they wouldn’t be losing out on too much,andnomoneyshouldcomebeforethe livelihoods of children. There should be government regulation on all plantations on a regular basis.

On the whole, it is obvious that nestle is not the family friendly company we thought it was, is not wholly ethical and doesn’t have the consumers best interests at heart. From paying fake nurses, exploiting water sources and using child labour, nestle doesn’t fall under the ethical circle and still continues to abuse their power to attain the best revenue and profits.

Written by Iris Nuredini [Укажите