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

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:

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.

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BOEHNER’S SENATE FIRST STRATEGY – Jake Sherman and Manu Raju write for POLITICO: “The same House Republican majority that spent the entire past two years haranguing Senate Democrats for ignoring piles of legislation has a new strategy. Let the Senate act first — on nearly everything. Whether it’s an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, renewing the Violence Against Women Act or retooling gun regulations after mass shootings across the nation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is perfectly fine with sitting on his hands. The House GOP’s days of incessantly repealing President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul are gone, as are their bills to eliminate obscure regulations.

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The NYT’s Jeremy Peters reports: HAGEL NOM CLEARS COMMITTEE, BUT THINGS GET PERSONAL – “After a combative two-hour debate that tested the bounds of Senate collegiality, the Armed Services Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary on a sharply partisan vote. The 14-to-11 vote to send the nomination to the Senate floor with a favorable recommendation was the latest step in a process that has deepened festering hostilities between Congressional Republicans and the White House and has exposed stark disagreements over wartime foreign policy. After the vote, Republicans threatened to try to filibuster the nomination of Mr. Hagel … while Democrats were promising to force a vote of the full Senate as early as Wednesday night.

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MENENDEZ’S BUSINESS AS USUAL APPROACH – John Bresnahan and Manu Raju report for POLITICO: “Embattled Sen. Robert Menendez is throwing himself into his new job as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as he struggles to deflect attention from his own personal problems. Menendez briefed fellow Democrats in a closed-door session on Tuesday about North Korea’s surprise nuclear test, an issue that has rattled the U.S. and foreign governments. He also met with Shehrbano Rehman, the Pakistani ambassador to the United States, to talk about American policy in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, Menendez will have coffee with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Over the weekend, Menendez is leading a congressional delegation to Afghanistan and Pakistan. …

–“At the same time, Menendez has been quietly meeting with some of his Democratic colleagues and party leaders to assure them that the scandal he’s embroiled in — which centers on his ties to Florida eye surgeon Salomon Melgen, a close friend and big Democratic donor — won’t interfere with his ability to do his new job. … Yet both Democrats and Republicans — mainly in private — are wondering whether the New Jersey Democrat can succeed with his ‘business-as-usual’ approach to the scandal, which has threatened to derail his once-promising political career.” http://politi.co/WlzcYP

– Fox News reports that Menendez took an undisclosed trip on Salomon’s plane back in 2008 to attend a charity golf tournament. http://fxn.ws/YcPxyo

NUGENT: I HAVE MORE SUPPORT THAN OBAMA – Kate Nocera reports for POLITICO: “Never one to shy away from speaking his mind, rocker Ted Nugent arrived on Capitol Hill for the State of the Union speech and promised to keep quiet. And he kept his promise, sitting silently in a corner of the visitors’ gallery above the House floor. Nugent — a gun advocate and guest of Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) — was so quiet, in fact, he didn’t even applaud once during the entire speech. … Nugent said the people who sat with him during the speech were those who ‘lived by the same logic as the Nugent family.’ ‘People of the military, people of law enforcement, small business owners — everyone was in agreement with Uncle Ted,’ he said. As he left the gallery, Nugent was swarmed by fans wanting photos — and even one woman who yelled ‘Run for president, Ted!’ ‘You hear that?’ he said to a reporter. ‘I have more support than the President at his own speech.’” http://politi.co/14S5vCn

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