Starbucks + Nestle: Alliance of Greed

Starbucks has signed a corporate "alliance" with Nestle which I was told in an e-mail from Starbucks: "Nestlé will only have the exclusive global rights to market, sell and distribute Starbucks, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Teavana™, Starbucks VIA® Instant Coffee, and Torrefazione Italia® packaged coffee and tea. The agreement excludes all ready-to-drink coffee, tea, and juice products, and is expected to close by the end of 2018. "

What they didn't tell me was: "The biggest food company in the world just signed on for a big chunk of the biggest name in coffee: Nestle will soon control nearly all of Starbucks’ retail operation, from the bags on grocery store shelves to what gets made into a K-cup, according to a deal announced yesterday. Nestle’s control of Starbucks’ retail arm cost $7.15 billion, and the coffee brand will continue to receive payouts for supplying the beans and licensing its name. Pending regulatory approval, Nestle plans to use its distribution might to push bags of Starbucks coffee into even more markets worldwide."

Nestle has long held and advertised the belief that "Water is NOT a Human Right"

Nestle is responsible for draining the National Forest illegally of its water, and attempting hostile take overs of towns & communities that own their own water sources. When successful, Nestle pays nearly nothing for the water they bottle, but makes as much as 258% profit.

Nestle is also being named in a CA court suit alleging that their bottling of CA's water has helped to create the extreme drought conditions.

Nestlé is being also sued for allegedly 'using child and slave labor to make chocolate' Nestlé USA faces a fresh class action lawsuit in the US for allegedly failing to disclose its chocolate brands may use cocoa from unlawful child or slave labor

Another class action lawsuit filed against Nestle claims that the company engaged in deceptive marketing because their bottled water, Pure Life, is not so pure and contains microplastics, according to a recent study.

While in Michigan: The proximity of the Nestlé plant to Flint’s degraded public water supply has some Michigan residents asking: why do we get undrinkable, unaffordable tap water, when the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, bottles the state’s most precious resource for next to nothing?

Doing business with a company, such as Nestle, lowers the standard of ethical business practices, human rights, and environmental sustainability

Let Starbucks know you will not support them in their "alliance" with Nestle by boycotting their products until they end their Alliance of Greed