Nestles Wet Dream: They Mark Up Water 53 MILLION Percent (Update: Response From Nestle)Daisy Luther Between corporate demons like Nestle and Monsanto, the very right to life itself is becoming a commodity with a price tag as access to food and water become a privilege only available to those who have the means to pay for it. The potential death toll would be astonishing. Is that the point? A team effort in which the elite make money hand over fist, massive depopulation, and indentured servitude in exchange for the right to eat and drink? Monsanto and Nestle are firmly on the same team Nestle donated over $1 million to the campaign against GMO labeling in California and their CEO has claimed that in 15 years of consumption, no one was every harmed by eating GMOs. While the worlds attention has been on Monsantos corruption of the food supply, Nestle has been quietly draining water sources around the globe and marking it up a mind-blowing 53,908,255%, while the rest of us must deal with droughts, regulations on wells and rainwater, and rising prices. Nestle has virtually taken over the water supplies in parts of South Africa, Ethiopia, and Pakistan, leaving residents of those countries to sicken and die from what remains. Nestle has been deaf to pleas from affected villagers for access to clean water. Perhaps that is because of theircorporate belief that water is a commodity, not a basic human right. Natural Societys Anthony Gucciardi wrote: Gucciardi is referring to a video from 2005 that recently surfaced and went viral. In the video, Nestles loathsome head exec, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe had these outrageous comments about the right to water. How benevolent of Nestle to make sure that we, the peons, realize that water has value. How rational that he believes all human beings having a right to water is an extreme solution. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, a Bilderberg group attendee, clearly hasclassic psychological issues. Antisocial personality disorder is a mental health condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others. All over the world, Nestle has been draining the water from financially beleaguered regions. Just so thats clear, they find places that are already struggling with poverty. Then, they make the poverty worse by damaging watersheds and wetlands, siphoning off hundreds of millions of gallons annually, and leaving the fields barren and dry. This isnt something that is just happening in Third World countries. Theyve done it in our own backyards. Here are just a few examples of communities pillaged by Nestle: The small Canadian town of Hillsburgh, Ontario is Nestles most recent target. Nestle has permission to take 1.1 million liters of water per day from Hillsburghs aquifers, even during droughts. Initially, the province had set limits on the companys ability to withdraw that amount during drought conditions, but after negotiations the Ministry of the Environment capitulated to Nestles demands that their water pumping not be restricted. Meanwhile, residents of the town are held to usage restrictions, as their grass turns brown and their gardens die. The Council of Canadians, along with several regional conservation groups, has appealed the ministrys decision to an environmental tribunal. Let me repeat the most important sentence in that quote. $3.71 turns into $2,000,000. A mark-up of 53,908,255%. I checked it HERE just to make sure. Nestle gets a free ride while water regulations abound for the rest of us. While Nestle has free rein to tap into water supplies across the country, the rest of us are losing access to water at an exponential rate. New laws are springing up that could tax people for the usage of well water and that disallow the collection of rainwater. Thats right Nestle can take 1.1 million liters per month but you cant have a rain barrel in your backyard for your garden. A classic Agenda 21 strategy, this pretense at sustainability practices remove resources from the hands of the average person, and place the control in the hands of the elite, via large corporations who pay little to nothing in taxes. Section II of Agenda 21, CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT, lays out the guidelines in warm and fuzzy language. This section includes protection of the atmosphere, land, mountains, ocean and fresh waters. So basically everything in the environment of a given country. This means that historical ways of using these resources could be outlawed, changing the basic ways of life for the indigenous people to make way for progress and sustainability. This gives control of all natural resources to the good folks of the Division of Sustainable Development. By specifically outlining the management of all natural resources, it disallows the use of them for any but the 1% in power, effectively keeping people from farming, fishing, mining or otherwise harvesting the innate supplies provided by their environments. Nestle has many other appalling practices The unsavory practices of Nestle dont end with water. They have spread their unethical tentacles throughout every faction of the business, despite their misleading PR campaign promoting a wholesome, community-oriented image. Nestle wages war against breastfeeding. Nestle is the number one producer of baby formula in the world. (Formula is an $11.5 billion dollar industry.) The company has received sharp criticism for its inroads into third world countries, where they have created massive demand for baby formula in a place where the poverty is so intense that mere survival is a struggle. Presented with the idea that formula was healthier for their babies than breast milk, the destitute mothers began watering down the formula and, as a result, millions of infants around the globe died of malnutrition. Nestles war on breastfeeding didnt stop there, however. Patent US 8012509 B2 for the compounds in human breast milk was granted to Nestle in 2011. According to a paper in the International Breastfeeding Journal in 2006, there were over 1200 patents currently pending on the components of human breast milk in the United States alone. The ownership and monopolization of human milk components has been declared by various institutions and corporations from medical universities such as John Hopkins and Baylor College of Medicine, to infant formula companies such as Nestle and Wyeth, to biotech companies such as Agennix, and even including the US Government as represented by the Department of Health. Nestle is trying to patent the healing powers of the fennel flower: Nestle performs cruel and unnecessary tests on animals in order to add health claims to their Nestea beverages. Nestle chocolate comes from slave labor, and the slaves include children. Confectionary News reports that Nestles executive vice president, Jose Lopez, was asked how long the company had been using child labor. His reply was, For as long as weve been using cocoa. But dont worry they promised to do better. The Resistance Against Nestle Much like the global resistance against Monsanto, the resistance against Nestle is rooted in alternative and social media. The sharing of information about their unethical practices can help to take them down. A global boycott of Nestle began in the US in 1977 in response to their aggressive marketing of baby formula, particularly in poverty-stricken Third World countries. The boycott is still active in 2013, and is administrated by the International Nestl Boycott Committee and the UK group Baby Milk Action. Another such movement is the website Stop Nestle Waters. The site was created to help defend small communities against Nestle. On their homepage, they explain why they have targeted the company: This grassroots movement uses the power of social media to share information and wage war against Nestle. Corporate Accountability International has named Nestle as a nominee in this years Corporate Hall of Shame, in unethical company with the likes of Monsanto, Walmart, and Bank of America. Nestle was nominate for undermining the human right to water and aggressively expanding water bottling operations over the objection of communities globally. (You can cast your vote HERE) Nestles Brands Nestle sells products under many different brand names to give the illusion of choice. If you would like to avoid purchasing Nestles products because of their unethical practices and their charge to privatize water, the following list of Nestle brands is from BabyMilkAction.org Coffee Nescaf including: Dairy products Confectionery snacks Mineral/bottled water Other drinks Processed meals Cereals Specialised Cosmetics Pet Foods Nestle is also the purveyor of the following baby products, according to their website Nestle Baby Products page Baby Products NESTLES RESPONSE: Daisy Luther is a freelance writer and editor. Her website,The Organic Prepper, wherethis article first appeared, offers information on healthy prepping, including premium nutritional choices, general wellness and non-tech solutions. You can follow Daisy onFacebookandTwitter, and you can email her atdaisy@theorganicprepper.ca 