Nestle Defends Its Russia Stance Saying Food Is a Basic Right Amid War

[Sherman A1]

April 7, 2022 - 12:30
(Bloomberg) -- Nestle SA said access to food is a basic right and a key value for the world’s largest food company following criticism the Swiss firm didn’t scale down its Russian activities quickly enough after the war in Ukraine started.

After pressure built up, Nestle said March 23 it suspended the vast majority of manufacturing in Russia while maintaining the sale of essential products such as infant formula and medical nutrition.

“To some, it may have appeared that Nestle was not listening closely enough, or that we were not acting quickly enough in response to current events,” Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider said in prepared remarks for the company’s virtual annual general meeting. “But, even in times of war, we believe universal values and principles should continue to apply.”

Schneider addressed the calls companies, including Nestle, have faced to go beyond international sanctions and leave the Russian market. Ukrainian authorities, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy himself, have called out Nestle and Schneider by name for continuing operations in Russia, prompting a wave of criticism and calls for boycotts on social media.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/nestle-defends-its-russia-stance-saying-food-is-a-basic-right-amid-war/47499588

[NCjack]

1. Nestle should send the food sold to Russia via Ukraine. Let the Ukrainians

distribute it to the Russians.

[treestar]

8. +1

Good idea.

[in2herbs]

2. As a corporation, Nestle has said that water is not a right and has been buying water rights

worldwide for many years. They need to get their stories right. Food is a right but not water??

[Celerity]

3. +10000000000000000

[dalton99a]

9. Yep.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. The only things that should be off limits for sanctions are medicine and baby food.

Everything else is fair game.

[Donkees]

5. 🩸

[Crunchy Frog]

10. BTW the woman in that picture has been kidnapped by the Russians along with her newborn.

She was recently forced to make a hostage propaganda video.

[treestar]

6. Is there some other way to

pressure the Russians. If they don't suffer, the will believe the propaganda. They won't get rid of Putin.

[dalton99a]

7. Same company that funded the Nazi Party in Switzerland and received a lucrative contract

to provide chocolate to the German army in WWII

[Zeitghost]

11. Meanwhile

Germany and others are sending Russia a billion a day for oil and gas...

[uponit7771]

12. Sooooo, Nestle will be sending food to millions hungry in Ukraine? No? yeah, full of shit