Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized

[Jesus Malverde]

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.

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.

Watch the video below for yourself:

Read More: http://www.minds.com/blog/view/60213/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right-should-be-privatized

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh gawd, NOT him again...

[billhicks76]

18. Air Is Not A Right Either

Arent these the same jerks who say we shouldn't have an organization like government controlling us? Corporations = Government. I'm beginning to think we need to go to war with these corporations if they are going to try and steal our air, water and food. Next they will be telling us how many babies we can have, that they own our DNA and we have no rights at all. I'd like to come face to face with this guy. Bush Sr and Jenna Bush bought the land with the largest aquifers in the world in South America. See what's happening here? We subsidized utilities and corporations to create water, electric and cable infrastructure and now they want to rip us all off. They really think at some point people aren't going to just snap and take them all to the woodshed? They don't have enough cops or drones to stop it...yet.

[roguevalley]

50. seriously, these guys are asking to be gunned down when push comes to shove

[YOHABLO]

2. And what's next AIR ?

[Flying Squirrel]

14. Tanstaafl...

Good luck, Nestle...

[cyberswede]

31. Please breathe responsibly

(from The Lorax)

[Scootaloo]

3. I'm against the death penalty...

But I'm also against letting tigers go hungry.

Just saying.

[kentauros]

6. There's always "death of the corporation."

In other words, revoke their charter because they do not contribute to the common good.

It's been done in the past, though the current Supreme Court wouldn't do it. Maybe future ones will.

[billhicks76]

21. If There Is A God

Hes sending this CEO to Hell

[silverweb]

4. We better get busy.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Work on individual and family-sized water extractors to use on air, dirt, plants, etc. Learn to REALLY save water, and purify and reuse our gray water.

These thieving "privatizers" and profiteers aren't getting one red cent more out of me than absolutely necessary.

[U4ikLefty]

5. Why not? Some DUers want further tolling of the Interstates.

Many are happy with replacing public schools with charters.

I think it's disgusting.

[Enthusiast]

26. It goes beyond disgusting.

When corporations control the government and use the government to achieve their goals, like privatizing the world water supply, it is Fascism.

And that is what this is, it is not becoming "like Fascism" or "growing to dangerously resemble Fascism", it is precisely Fascism.

These people are the greatest threat to the nation we have ever seen. They are clearly the enemy of the United States of America.

[deathrind]

7. This man is delusional...

...and still gets paid millions a year. His comment about basically making sure the company was safe and secure before worrying about the bigger picture (Earth) made me think of the slide shown for a business presentation in "An Inconveient Truth" of a balance scale with the Earth on one side and gold bars on the other. His views on water are horrible and that reminded me of something Gandhi said about salt.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. EVIL

[silverweb]

9. +1000

[Warpy]

10. Let's let him try to do without it for a couple of days

My guess is that he would begin to see what a necessity really is and that water qualifies.

You can go without food for a month or two, depending on your fat stores. You can go without water for only 4-5 days and then your kidneys shut down, your tongue swells and fills your mouth completely, and death looks like a great idea because you won't want to live another minute.

None of these pricks should ever be allowed near a municipal water supply. Let them stick to their silly bottled designer tap water.

[jberryhill]

12. I'll bet he just goes dormant

Like those frogs who shut down when their pond dries up and come to life from the solidified mud when the water comes back.

[Warpy]

39. Or a plant.

That's his intellectual equivalent, anyway.

[ronnie624]

11. Interesting.

Water is the "most important raw material we have in the world", and it should belong to a tiny fraction of the human population, so they can profit from it. I wonder who he believes bestowed ownership of this important resource to him and his wealthy cronies. It's hard to make heads or tails of his gibberish. If humanity survives the coming centuries, this attitude will surely be regarded as being as barbaric as the practice of sacrificing virgins to volcano gods.

[jberryhill]

13. I'm sorry, but

...an occasional human sacrifice for totally irrational purposes is, on balance, not nearly as barbaric as what this guy wants.

[ronnie624]

23. The belief that a certain, infinitesimal class of human society

owns all of the world's essential resources, to do with as they please, is definitely responsible for more misery in the world, that's for sure.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Give Nestle a break.

They need to have something to mix the crap baby formula they push on 3rd world countries, with.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Maybe he should have said, "Let them drink champagne." Worked ever so well for Marie Antoinette.

[Alkene]

17. "The French Aristocracy Never Saw it Coming Either." n/t

[billhicks76]

22. That's Right

And either will they or their Hubris.

[davekriss]

53. Except they are keenly aware of the potential unrest their usurpation of the commons can cause

Thus militarization of the police .... NSA surveillance of everyday citizens ... the 5-4 joke of a Supreme Court ... the studies revealing that the political class is totally unresponsive to the demands of the great mass of citizens ...

They are keenly aware. They are ready, unfortunately.

(All that experience training technique of repressive regimes at formerly named School of the Americas has and will serve them well.)

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. Nestle's role in the assassination of Columbian labor leader

Switzerland’s highest court is about to decide whether top managers at Nestlé—by revenue the world’s largest food company—will be investigated in connection with the murder of a former employee in Colombia.

Paramilitary thugs tortured and killed trade union activist Luciano Romero in 2005—just before he was to testify at the Permanent People’s Tribunal on Nestlé’s corporate and trade union policies.

Lower Swiss courts have ruled against an investigation of the company despite recommendations from a Colombian judge, but his widow launched an appeal earlier this year to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.

The death of Romero, who worked for Nestlé’s subsidiary Cicolac for twenty years, was an all too familiar reminder of the dangers faced by trade unionists in Colombia. Right wing paramilitary groups—often encouraged by public officials—have frequently attacked labor organizers.

Courageous Judge Forced into Exile............


More: http://www.globalresearch.ca/were-top-managers-at-neslte-connected-to-the-murder-of-a-colombian-union-activist/5380559

[Demonaut]

20. a bit old

[defacto7]

24. There is only one outcome of this position

and it has little to do with making money. When we are talking about privatizing water, the logic of profit is completely obliterated. Profit for whom? Paid for by whom? For how long? Who determines the price and why? When water is an owned commodity, life becomes a bought and sold commodity. What do we do with commodities that are unproductive?

The point is, there is no economic reason for corporate ownership of water, no future, no profit.. totally illogical. The only reason is to control the population either as coercion or population control. It's to say, life is the property of the oligarchical imperial few and the rest of the population is either productive or they die.

There is NO other outcome of this thinking. I would have to be dumb enough to think that the few are going to take care of us all forever. The only other scenario that fits? The masses will be "controlled" for the benefit of and the future of the few. Sound like a sci-fi movie, but I swear this thinking is in the mind's eye of those highest ranking in world wealth.

Do I think that water will be owned by corporations? No, I don't for now. Do I think that the scenario above is very seriously and well thought through by our sociopathic oligarchical owners? I most certainly do.

[area51]

25. This idea is just as good as the idea

to have a for-profit health care system. Oh, wait ....

[azurnoir]

27. a "let'em drink Perrier" quote if ever there was one

and this from the guy who's company markets Enfamil in 3rd world countries

[Scuba]

28. What would you expect from a company that uses child slaves to harvest their raw materials?

http://otherwords.org/big_chocolates_child_slavery_addiction/

[tk2kewl]

29. tk2kewl: FUCK YOU!

nt

[warrior1]

30. We all ready pay for water.

[L0oniX]

36. Don't forget about the Bechtel devil.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=6670

[ronnie624]

38. Thinking people

have already rejected capitalism as a viable economic model for the distribution of basic goods and services for modern human society. It offers no security whatsoever for the future of our civilization, but instead, only poverty for the vast majority and the destruction of our biosphere.

[Initech]

33. And people wonder why I don't buy bottled water.

[L0oniX]

34. Narcissistic sociopath extraordinaire.

[Supersedeas]

35. reminds me of the LORAX and the character who wanted to bottle fresh air

[yuiyoshida]

37. I have an idea ...

IF water is not a human right, lets take his water away for a week. NO WATER, AT NO PRICE. NONE. Lets see how long before he whines?

[jwirr]

42. We need to take ALL of his water away. Not just drinking water. Water to flush the toilet in his

homes, water to bathe in, water to do laundry and dishes. THEN he would start screaming.

[yuiyoshida]

43. You just assign a big guy to walk around

with him all day..The instructions are simple.. BIG guy does not allow him any water or liquid what so ever. Not even Champagne to wash his dirty socks in.

[TheKentuckian]

47. Too much half stepping, take his water Freman deathstill style.

[Armstead]

40. Gotta give the guy points for honesty

Usually these guys -- AND THEIR MINIONS IN GOVERNMENT -- couch the awful truth abut their motives and goals in a lot of feelgood gobbeldy gook.

He's telling it like it is. "Fuck you and fuck Nature."

[BootinUp]

52. lol +1

[jwirr]

41. Apparently Nestle is still the ass they were in the 70s.

[The2ndWheel]

44. If water is a human right, it's already been privatized

Into the few hands of a single species.

[Jamaal510]

45. But don't we

already pay for water, though? What about bottled water and water bills?

[City Lights]

46. Fuck Nestle.

Horrid company.

[FiveGoodMen]

48. That's equivalent to saying that LIFE is not a human right.

And I think that's what he means.

[GoneFishin]

49. Fuck him. Sociopathic scumbag.

[think]

51. Peter must not have got the kinder, gentler, more friendly Oligarch memo.....

[hedda_foil]

54. Capitalism is the Worm Ouroborus

The mythical beast from Norse legend that swallows its own tail.


Like the worm/snake/dragon of lore, Capitalism feeds upon the source of its power (ie., the people they call consumers) until it consumes itself.

God, I despise these pompous, evil pricks.

[BootinUp]

55. ballsy nt

[neverforget]

56. He's a parasite on human civilization

fuck him and his ilk.