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Nestle gets 10,000 messages in a bottle

Posted by: Maven on April 25, 2009 at 7:12 am

From YubaNet.com:

The following was released by Corporate Accountability International:

While Nestle executives put on a good show of the corporation’s green and good neighbor initiatives in Switzerland, communities sent out an SOS from the corporation’s headquarters for its bottling operations in North America. Leaders from communities near Nestle bottling sites, and the national Think Outside the Bottle campaign that works with them, delivered 10,000 messages in a bottle calling on Nestle to stop undermining local control of water.

Nestle is currently involved in water bottling disputes with communities in six states and Canada. From outside the shareholders’ meeting the picture is an unpleasant one for the bottling giant:

Another run at McCloud. Nestle recently announced plans to make another run at bottling water near Mt. Shasta in California, despite years of local resistance.

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April 25, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water

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