Thursday, April 7, 2011

EQ: Nestle - "DO YOU PLAY BY THE RULES?"

NESTLE: "Do You Play By The Rules?"
by The EQualizer Post, originally published on 29 March 2011
Original and full article available online here.

"Peter Brabeck:Nestle Chairman

"As the largest bottled water company in the world, it is hypocritical in the extreme for Nestle to be trying to gain media exposure on World Water Day."
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire - March 22, 2011) - CUPE Nova Scotia President Danny Cavanagh is joining a chorus of water activists who say Nestlé Waters Canada, a private water company, is exploiting World Water Day for profit.
CUPE says the company issued a press release alerting the media that company executive John Challinor II will be accepting calls from the press on World Water Day (today) to talk about the company's "policies on water management and conservation."
The Inside the Bottle coalition – which CUPE is a part of – is encouraging its supporters to call John Challinor II today and let him know that water is not something that can be bought and sold for profit.
Cavanagh says, "As the largest bottled water company in the world, it is hypocritical in the extreme for Nestle to be trying to gain media exposure on World Water Day."

"Isn’t it strange to talk about not wasting when you gave us a water bottle to waste?"
The Globe and Mail newspaper reports that at the launch of Waste Reduction Week, hundreds of schoolchildren were given souvenir bags containing bottled water from Nestlé.
To their great credit, the students reacted badly to the Nestlé promotion (Nestlé Waters Canada sponsors the Waste Reduction Week). They wrote to both the recycling council, the corporate sponsors and to the two Ontario government ministers attending the event.
As one student noted:

"Isn’t it strange to talk about not wasting when you gave us a water bottle to waste?"

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