Have a break! DON’T purchase a KitKat! Or any other Nestlé products. The evil empire of food production which masquerades as an organisation committed to “enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.” - known, but not known enough, for its dubious, alleyway exploits such as child labour, unethical promotion, manipulating uneducated mothers, pollution, price fixing and mislabelling.
In more recent news, Nestlé’s decision to discontinue its use of Fairtrade cocoa in all of its KitKat products will result in the loss of 1.95 million pounds for the cocoa producers, severing the lifeline for over 27,000 farmers and destroying the livelihoods of tens of thousands of families across Cote d’Ivoire, Fiji and Malawi.
This decision will also mean they will refrain from purchasing sugar through the Fairtrade system, and will only use European sugar beet – sugar cane producers in Cote d’Ivoire risk not only the loss of their Fairtrade support, but also their access to get their sugar on the market. In other words, the only people “enhancing their quality of life” are Nestlé’s operatives, who can buy their ingredients cheaper, and contribute to a “healthier future” by fuelling the global obesity rate and starving destitute families simultaneously. Next time you’re in the corner shop, try a Divine (the only Fairtrade chocolate company co-owned by cocoa farmers), not a KitKat.
Worker exploitation tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth.
Written by Isa Edwards Buesa
Media by Ben Hyland
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