multinationals pain

"Nestle is against any kind of exploitation, shall comply with the national laws of all the countries in which it operates and conforms to the conventions of the ILO," an organization that promotes social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights. This we read in the manifesto introductory Italian company on the site. Nestle, which owns brands such as Acqua Panna, Nestea, San Pellegrino, Sanbitter, My Cheese, Fruttolo, Condiriso, Motta, Kit Kat, Nescafe, is one of the largest multinationals "bad" in the world. In January 2003, the scientific journal "British Medical Journal" held a survey in Togo and Burkina Faso to verify compliance with the code WHO (World Earth Organisation) on the marketing of breast milk substitutes. In Italy, however, antitrust has highlighted how the company has used to distribute free milk powder in African hospitals. Physicians feeding infants with milk powder and at the time of discharge, the children, who are accustomed to eat with this type of milk, maternal refuse. Not only that. The company sells products containing GMOs under his own admission and according to Earth Island Journal, uses child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa (especially in countries like Ivory Coast, Benin, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso). The children, often very young and alone, they are forced to work dangerous and grueling schedules. "I found two of my children, Emanuel and Honoré, just in a coffee plantation," says dad Enzo. "The operators of multinationals - he continues - go to the villages. After giving compensation to the families, promising them that the child can live a peaceful life and aspire to a bright future. The mothers entrust their children who then exploit them in the plantations and will force them to forced labor. " In 2003 he started, with this in mind, an international boycott coordinated by Baby Milk Action to induce Nestle not to violate the most code developed by WHO for the marketing of breast milk substitutes. Meanwhile, social networking sites like facebook become hotbeds of rebellion and collective boycotts Super Hits implemented by ordinary people. Today we're also trying to Mama Africa non-profit organization with its own campaign of denunciation.

Ensuring plantations and resource-poor countries where the natives can not access, Mc Donald's, the U.S. company number one among the fast food companies in the world, exporting to about 36 of the 40 poorest countries, most of the crops, which are then used as feed for livestock. If the Keyhinge Toys Da Nang City (Vietnam), very young children are employed in manual labor for little money (those for the production of content in the Happy Meal toys) for about 9/10 hours a day, in 2000, some minors were found to work for about 16 hours a day in the City Toys Ltd. Shajing, near Hong Kong. The paradox is that the multinational promotes development projects in the countries of the so-called "First World": think of the Foundation for Children Ronald McDonald (clown company logo) that creates small villas and buildings which are located in the immediate vicinity of the hospitals where children are hospitalized. The project gives the opportunity for children to spend a stay in constant company of their parents.
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Roberta Migliaccio