Nestlé is the world's most sustainable food company according to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index1https://www.bkb.ch/de/privatkunden/anlegen/chancen/2021/nestle-ein-nachhaltiges-unternehmen. Holy shit! Who would have thought that?
Even though I'm quite into the subject... and even though I like to trade 20 to 30,000 euros a month on the stock market... What is the Dow Jones Sustainability Index? Never heard of it. Well, except for Nestlé.
In the area of the environment, the index rewards the company's commitment to making products and processes as environmentally and socially compatible as possible.2https://www.bkb.ch/de/privatkunden/anlegen/chancen/2021/nestle-ein-nachhaltiges-unternehmen. Self-commitment, right. In other words, a company that is really bad everywhere has to claim that it will do everything better in future. And then you end up high up in the rankings. It's as pointless as the US Privacy Shield, where you say my IT is secure and then you can happily collect personal data even though, according to the EU, you are based in an „unsafe third country“3https://netzpolitik.org/2016/logo-ist-vor-einigung-fertig-safe-harbour-2-0-heisst-jetzt-privacy-shield/ and well, actually nothing at all mayfest4https://dsgvo-gesetz.de/themen/drittland/. In both cases, nothing is checked because there is a lack of control bodies and legal regulations. Such nonsense has consequences, there are reasons why the latter was overturned. 5https://www.datenschutz-guru.de/boom-das-privacy-shield-ist-tot-wenig-alternativen-fuer-drittlandsverarbeitungen/. In terms of environmental protection, unfortunately, things look bleak. At Nestlé anyway.
Thomas Day from the NewClimate Institute attests that Nestlé's ambitious-sounding promises have very little integrity. This could „mislead“ both consumers and regulators“6https://www.geo.de/natur/nachhaltigkeit/bmw-nestle-unilever-studie-kritisiert-klimaversprechen-von-konzernen-31610578.html. By the way, BMW is also mentioned in the same breath as Deutsche Post DHL. I'll have to take a closer look at the underlying study in detail, also with regard to BMW. Should the BMW Group, which is interesting because of its enormously high dividends and the technological shift towards electric mobility, be the next company to be excluded from my list for reasons of nature conservation? Share deposit flies?
Nestlé knows that its image is ruined and is deliberately buying up the few well-known competitors that stood for sustainability. Best example: Ankerkraut7https://www.wuv.de/Themen/Markenstrategie/W%C3%BCrziger-Deal-Nestl%C3%A9-%C3%BCbernimmt-Ankerkraut. Lion's den was that, wasn't it?
Apart from distorted competition, this unfortunately does not change the real problem. Anyone who buys Nestlé products like KitKat accepts the practices of the company. And I am not just referring to the palm oil problem, which everyone has heard about by now. Once again, I have a sad story up my sleeve for which we don't even have to travel halfway around the globe. I'd almost bet you didn't know that Nestlé was testing on animals to market its Botox products.8https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjz5c_jiYSAAxXWSPEDHf83AL4QFnoECGsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-docs.b-tu.de%2Fnachhaltigkeit%2Fpublic%2FEco-Tipps%2FArchiv%2F202109_Eco-Tipp_September.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2SkwykhN9qeIuycZFC_9LE&opi=89978449. It's totally insane how they test. Never before have I read about such an unscientific test set-up. The test set-up, which Nestlé does not dispute, to test the tolerability of the Nestlé Botox preparation looks - and I kid you not - like this:
- Inject Botox into the abdominal wall of mice.
- If more than 50% of the animals die, the dose was too high.
That's not how science works. We no longer live in the Middle Ages. Quite apart from the fact that one can and does test with human cells in the laboratory instead of with mammals in the torture chamber.9https://www.sophienklinik-stuttgart.de/gesicht/faq/ist-botox-ohne-tierversuche-moeglich/10https://www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de/de/sonstige/stoppt-botox-tierversuche11https://www.tagblatt.de/Nachrichten/Botox-ohne-Tierversuche-272515.html12https://www.botox-center-berlin.de/botox-und-tierversuche.html13https://www.botox-center-berlin.de/botox-und-tierversuche.html14https://www.deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de/news/artikel/2015/11/24/merz-setzt-auf-tests-ohne-mause.
That's not all. I bet my ass you've never heard that even Nestea has been tested on animals.15https://youtu.be/LbT8Xw_au9416https://www.teetalk.de/forums/topic/6036-nestea-und-tierversuche/ and Nestlé justifies the necessity with legal requirements. Seriously. How much chemical do you have to put in chilled tea for the legislator to force you to test it on animals? Holy shit!
By the way, animal experiments are no longer carried out today. Well, not in Germany. It's all on Nestle's official website17https://www.nestle.de/frag-nestle/tierversuche.
That's so absurd, I can hardly believe it myself. I'm sorry, but sometimes you need pictures to get your imagination going.
Nestlé can shake hands with these arseholes who inject dromedaries, camels, alpacas & co. Botox dromedaries, camels, alpacas & co. so that they can achieve higher profits in Saudi Arabian „beauty contests“ for quadrupeds18https://www.stern.de/panorama/kamele-werden-wegen-botox-disqualifiziert-7835598.html. You can see for yourself just how awful it looks when a camel can no longer breathe, drink and eat properly because its mouth has been sprayed to death with a simple Google search. Spoiler: I actually had tears in my eyes again when I first saw it. The only thing that made me sadder was my keeper at the time, who laughed and when I answered his question about whether it was real in the affirmative, added with a broad grin - and I quote - „That's funny.“ he added. Sometimes that's just too much for me. I can't cope with the way some people who are actually so kind-hearted tick.
I won't live to see if we turn the tide. As I've said many times before, it's definitely going to suck. The only question is how much it will suck.
If you really want to please me, read the fourth and last part tomorrow and make up your own mind.
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