If y'all run a spousal human relationship found , y'all tin compass the sack role tap H2O to brand "bottled water" - but if y'all run a non-union found too practise this , y'all are pumping the aquifer dry!
Lately , at that topographic point guide maintain been peripheral reports close Nestle abusing H2O rights inwards drought-stricken California. People are literally dying of thirst piece fell inhumane international corporate conglomerate Nestle - the same ane who "addicted" African babies to their babe formula - pumped the deserts dry out to sell overpriced bottled water.
Well , that is a trivial extreme interpretation , but to read the press , you'd recollect big , bad , quondam Nestle was raping the earth.
But hold back , what close all the other bottled H2O companies? What close the soft-drink companies? What close the breweries? Where practise y'all recollect they larn their H2O from?
Same damn place.
But for about argue , nosotros never ask heed the appal against Coca-Cola , who takes tap H2O , purifies it , too bottles it too sell it. And actually , this is no worse than taking tap H2O , adding carbohydrate to it , too selling it equally a "soft drink". Or beer. In other words , it isn't a bad matter at all.
But for about argue , nosotros never ask heed the appal against Coca-Cola , who takes tap H2O , purifies it , too bottles it too sell it. And actually , this is no worse than taking tap H2O , adding carbohydrate to it , too selling it equally a "soft drink". Or beer. In other words , it isn't a bad matter at all.
All drinkable businesses role tap H2O or good H2O inwards their processing. Many non-beverage businesses practise equally good - heroic amounts of H2O , inwards fact. Why is Nestle existence singled out for derision?
I recollect the respond is unions. Unions are a shape of organized law-breaking , too they volition role whatever way necessary to larn their human foot inwards the door of a factory. And if this way besmirching the advert of the fellowship , thence survive it. You desire task peace too adept PR from the left-wing press? You guide maintain to practise job organisation amongst Vinny too Knuckles , first. Sign that task contract , brand about world donations to "GreenEarthKeepers of the World , LLC" or about grouping , too inwards no fourth dimension y'all expire from bad guy to adept guy.
You don't pay the hush money? We expire on attacking y'all inwards the press.
Recently , at that topographic point was an obvious play inwards the press close Tesla motors - that the workers at that topographic point are working also difficult too getting injured. And non surprisingly , the mill is nether gear upwards on past times the unions to expire unionized. The planted articles inwards the press (press-release news) allege that workers are collapsing on the chore too losing fingers inwards the machinery. Hard materials to attempt out or disprove , specially when equally a journalist , y'all seat the give-and-take "alleged" inwards forepart of the press-release too and thence just impress the damn matter verbatim.
Sadly , this is the nation of journalism today. Newspapers too online sites - too television set tidings programs - oft barf upwards , verbatim , whatever press unloosen sounds similar it volition capture eyeballs. No existent "investigative" journalism goes on , no ane bothers to await into the other side of the story. Companies involved , for legal reasons , guide maintain to state "no comment" which makes it audio similar they are guilty of something too hiding it. People don't bother to recollect also much close it , other than to survive Outraged!(tm) too ship service something on Facebook.
The Nestle bottled-water stories are starting to fade out equally to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than plants vote to unionize. I suspect when they are fully unionized , y'all volition run across stories close what peachy stewards of the world Nestle is , too how peachy babe formula is for tertiary world babies.
As for Tesla , I suspect the twenty-four hours they bring together the UAW volition survive the twenty-four hours y'all destination reading close how awful it is to function for Tesla. And that volition survive the twenty-four hours that Tesla starts its inexorable ride downwards to bankruptcy.
Whenever y'all run across a storey similar this inwards the press , think close it a bit. It may survive truthful , or it may survive a one-sided story. Is at that topographic point about scheme that wants to tear downwards the fellowship inwards query (e.g. , union?). Who benefits from the story? And does the exact same storey look inwards a release of publications , word-for-word?
I am skeptical of a lot of things. And the sentiment that one bottled imbibe fellowship is raping the earth piece all the other similar companies who practise the exact same things are not , is something I don't recollect holds water.
If you'll pardon the pun.
If you'll pardon the pun.
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