Every person has a human right to food and the government has a duty

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12. Welcome to DU, mynaturalrights.

Quotes from the Nestle CEO

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/nestl-ceo-doesnt-think-water-basic-ri

It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution. And the other view says that water is a foodstuff, like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it’s better to give foodstuff a value so that we’re all aware that it has its price and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water, and there are many different possibilities there.

I’m still of the opinion that the biggest social responsibility of any CEO is to maintain and ensure the successful and profitable future of his enterprise. For only if we can ensure our continued, long-term existence will we be in the position to actively participate in the solution of the problems that exist in the world. We’re in the position of being able to create jobs: 275,000 here, 1.2 million who are directly dependent on us in principle. That makes 4.5 million worldwide, because behind each of our employees are another three people, so we have at least 4.5 million people who are directly dependent on us.

If you want to create work, you have to work yourself, not as it was in the past where existing work was distributed. If you remember the main argument for the 35-hour week was that there was a certain amount of work and it would be better if we worked less and distributed the work amongst more people. That has proved quite clearly to be wrong. If you want to create more work you have to work more yourself. And with that we’ve got to create a positive image of the world for people and I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t be positive about the future. We’ve never had it so good; we’ve never had so much money, we’ve never been so healthy, we’ve never lived as long as we do today. We have everything we want and still we go around as if we were in mourning for something.

SNIP