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π€ So they primarily make chocolate and bottled water, right?
What if someone else came along and set up a company that sold chocolate and bottled water obtained a lot more ethically. How would you all feel about that?
Better. There are plenty of companies that aren't Nestle that provide both I'm sure.
But Nestle's tentacles are into many more products than just those two, which makes them challenging to ignore 100%. From Wikipedia:
NestlΓ© owns over 2000 brands in 186 countries
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I imagine a world where bottled water is sold in chilled aluminum bottles instead of shitty, non-reuseable plastic. That is bottled from desalinated seawater whose excess brine is flash-boiled and the sea salt sold instead of ripped off from innocent cities' aquifers.
I imagine a world where chocolate is primarily grown either in the southern U.S., like Louisiana and Florida, where workers would have at least some rudimentary labor protection instead of African and South American countries whose people are treated like chattel slaves, or greenhouses.
I imagine a world like this, and the profits it could bear. And I say, yes, internets, let's do this