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Post by bacon butty on Dec 16, 2013 13:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by bacon butty on Dec 16, 2013 13:54:39 GMT -5
Mike Brady, Campaigns and Networking Coordinator at Baby Milk Action, said: "Nestlé is already using a Fairtrade mark on a token product representing just 0.02% of its coffee purchase to try to divert criticism of its trading practices, which have been blamed for driving down prices for millions of coffee farmers. While the coffee and cocoa farmers in Fairtrade schemes should benefit, if proper independent audits are done, that provides little comfort to the vast majority of suppliers outside the schemes. Legal action has been taken against Nestlé in the US over its failure to act on child slavery in its cocoa supply chain, despite public claims that it is doing so, and we have already seen it trying to divert this criticism by, for example, sponsoring an event on the abolition of slavery at the Labour Party Conference.
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Post by bob0627 on Dec 16, 2013 14:57:09 GMT -5
This is far from the only company who's using child labor that's tantamount to slavery for their products. And Child Protective Services in the US and other western nations also engage in child trafficking for profit.
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Post by shred on Jan 13, 2014 9:02:34 GMT -5
They are one of the crappiest unethical multinationals going. But Yorkie bars are delicious.
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