Nestle Demands Cash From Starving Country
Bristol Resist | 18.12.2002 13:47
Just when you thought that things could not get any worse for the 11 million starving people of Ethiopia, along comes Swiss multinational and @Bristol 'partner', Nestle with a demand for millions of dollars, as Oxfam noted; "Nestlé has demanded that Ethiopia pay over $6million in compensation for a company that was nationalised 27 years ago, a company that Nestlé didn't even own at the time.....The $6m represents 0.01% of Nestlé's turnover last year. But for Ethiopia, $6m would buy food for over a million people for a whole month." Never mind the starving of the country or the collapsing coffee prices that are making a bad situation worse, do Nestle know it's Christmas time at all?
Well it's time to tell them about Christmas - go to www.maketradefair.com/go/scrooge/ and you can send an email to nestle to demand they put people before profit. Also email @Bristol's press officer Sonja Johnston (sonja.johnston@at-bristol.org.uk) to ask her how their 'ethics' policy operates in relation to a company who takes attempts to take cash from governments dealing with famines? Does this mean they will kick Nestle out?
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