Environmental activists are battling with chocolate company Nestle over the purchase of palm oil to use in their candy bars. Activists believe that Nestle is contributing to destroying rainforests because of where they get their palm oil.
I do not see what the fuss is about, I have a hard time believeing that the Nestle comapny is truly trying to destroy rainforests. The company they made a deal with is responsible for the clearing of rainforests to create palm plantations....not Nestle. Nestle is simply paying them for a product and they are not even getting much of their palm oil from this company, only 1.25% of the palm oil they use yearly.
While I respect the power of the social media platforms where people are protesting, I don't think that it's right to become a fan of a product just so you can talk trash on their wall. I think the Nestle should pay someone full-time to monitor that wall deleting every comment and fan that is rudely critising their product ( positive critisism can be helpful). This would give the company a more accurate result of how many fans they really have.
I believe that this is a whole lot of fuss about nothing. The activists are getting thier undies in a bundle over something that most likely doesn't even effect them personally. As a Nestle consumer for my whole life, I truly do not care where they get there palm oil from and I am going to continue eating them because they are DELICIOUS!!
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I think you're right, there's really nothing there to raise a fuss about. But it is the right of facebook fans to give their opinions and no one will stop them from doing it inappropriately. They'll have to start their own fanpage if they their comments are deleted.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that they are making a big fuss about such a small thing. I think there are companies that are doing way worse things to the environment then Nestle. And KitKats are amazing so they should keep making these no matter what people say.
ReplyDeletei agree!! its not a big fuss and they are pointing the blame on the middle man essentially! I believe most people really will have to have full time monitoring on facebook pages like these because there are people out there just looking to trash just for something to do and because everyone else is. how many of it is really accurate? It truely is a waste of time and nestle is a very well known respected company, i mean no offence but i have never even hear of this Greenpeace...i just think it could have been handled better if anything at all.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you! Nestle should not be held responsible for the actions of the supplying company. It is obvious through their efforts to clean up this mess that it was NEVER their intention to cause any damage to the environment at all, and they weren't even initially aware of the environmental damage their was causing. If anything, this incident wants to make me eat more Kit Kats.
ReplyDeleteI think that Nestle has every right to delete what ever they like but I think that it wont really help much.. Especially if some Nestle representatives are spewing bad comments right back at customers. They should think critically and try to work explain themselves to diffuse the situation.
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