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No, although I might have seen it. Nestlé has a long history of problems from the questionable exploitation of water resources, profiting from child/slave labor, unethically promoting infant formula over breast milk in developing countries, anti-union/labor practices, pushing for the privatization of public water access ("access to water should not be a public right."), promoting deforestation and the destruction of protected land, greenwashing the impact of plastic bottles, and that's not even all of the ethically questionable things they've done. Just as I was looking up the exact quote of from their chairman and then CEO I'm learning for the first time of complaints about their use of (and lies concerning) palm oil and their demand of £3.7m from Ethiopia while they were in the midst of a famine.

They clearly put their own profits over the lives and safety of people. I'm not taking to the streets in protest or starting facebook groups or anything, but where I can get a comparable alternative to their products I'll go out of my way to spend my money there so that I'm not supporting them.



I completely agree and there are definitely variations based on the mineral content of the source. For me, I can't stand arrowhead water because it tastes salty to me. I think a lot of it has to do with how local water supplies shape our concept of the taste of water.




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