{"id":178735,"date":"2018-09-03T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/03\/sympathy-for-the-chocolatier\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:46:00","slug":"sympathy-for-the-chocolatier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/03\/sympathy-for-the-chocolatier\/","title":{"rendered":"Sympathy for the Chocolatier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nestle, the company that has pushed baby formula on the poor all over the world, resulting in malnutrition and death from tainted water, is now saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/nestle-says-slavery-reporting-requirements-could-cost-customers-20180816-p4zy5l.html\">it&#8217;s just too damn hard to keep track of slave labor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">One of the world&#8217;s largest food and drink companies has warned proposed legislation requiring big business to report on their efforts to combat modern slavery could hit consumers&#8217; hip pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Companies operating in Australia with an annual turnover of $100 million or more would be required to annually report on the risks of modern slavery within their business and the actions they&#8217;ve taken to address those risks under the federal government&#8217;s draft Modern Slavery Bill 2018.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The reports would have to cover issues related to human trafficking, slavery, sexual servitude and child labour within businesses&#8217; operations and supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Nestle, owner of more than 2000 brands in 189 countries, has told a senate committee that Australia&#8217;s proposed mandatory reporting requirements could add &#8220;cost and time&#8221; to businesses and suppliers &#8220;which will need to be borne somewhere&#8221;. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Capitalism at its finest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestle, the company that has pushed baby formula on the poor all over the world, resulting in malnutrition and death from tainted water, is now saying that it&#8217;s just too damn hard to keep track of slave labor: One of the world&#8217;s largest food and drink companies has warned proposed legislation requiring big business to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[474,365,370,364,449],"class_list":["post-178735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-business","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-evil","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}