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“Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers.”

Not to be a joyless communist, but if we can’t have chocolate without slavery, we shouldn’t have chocolate.

(By @sistersinead@twitter.com)

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nestle-says-slavery-reporting-requirements-could-cost-customers-20180816-p4zy5l.html

#slavery #chocoate #capitalism #communism #socialism #exonomy

in reply to Asbjørn Ulsberg

Nestle is a despicable company, and I have been boycotting them for years. Everyone should.
in reply to Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

@veronica my family stopped eating chocolate in the early 2000s when the chocolate companies successfully lobbied against similar legislation in the US. We haven't intentionally eaten chocolate since.
This entry was edited (8 months ago)
in reply to Jim Jones

@GreatBigTable I mean, it is hard to boycott a company with the reach of Nestle. I'm not always successful, and I do forget to check who makes the stuff I buy. As I wrote my previous post I realised I actually have one of their chocolate bars in my fridge. I picked it up in a rush the other day because I hadn't tasted it in years, and forgotten why I stopped buying it. Being a conscious consumer is hard in practice. We do need better laws to force them to actually get anywhere.
This entry was edited (8 months ago)
in reply to Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

@veronica @GreatBigTable Yeah, regulators have been completely unconsciously asleep, allowing Nestlé, Pepsico, General Mills, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Danone, ABF, MARS and Mondeléz to grow into these enormous, grotesque beasts. It’s impossible to boycott all of them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-food-industry-2016-9

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