I will assume that even those of my readers that do not have children were nonetheless kids themselves in a not too distant past. Which means that they likely made use through their kids or their parents of Gerber or Nestlé baby food products. Alternatively, their tenders behinds probably made the acquaintance of Pampers, Vaseline or Johnson’s Baby oil. In any case their older buttocks later became friends of sorts with Charmin? And in the following years of their youth in civilization, those growing kids and teenagers almost certainly sampled Band-Aid with their knees?
On the breakfast table from Kalamazoo to Marseille, there were Cheerios or Corn Flakes or Harvest Crunch if not Captain Crunch; maybe AuntJamima’s pancakes otherwise or the good ol’ Quaker’s oatmeal. Did you snacked on Petit LU, Oreos cookies or Planters peanuts? Did you calm your sweet tooth with KitKat, Côte D’Or, Bounty, Snickers? Did you chew Wrigley’s or Dentyne? Which is best : Sweet tarts or Sour Patch kids? Coke or Pepsi?
A perfect sandwich : Oscar Mayer cold cuts, Cracker Barrel cheese and Maille mustard, Hellman’s mayonnaise or both, right? But hey, Miracle Whip works too. In truth, my good folks, wash your panties with Tide or Sunlight, line them with Stayfrees or Always and brush your teeth with Crest or Close-up, it doesn’t matter. Smell Lacoste, Ralph Lauren or Axe, it still doesn’t! Feed your cat Friskies or Whiskas and your dog Alpo or Pedigree, no difference. Go brew your self a cup of Nescafé or Maxwell House and do come back to check the image below :
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10 companies that own ( except for the partial participation of Nestlé in L’Oréal ) most of the brands that define our everyday lives.
Which explains why the rich folks are getting ever richer in proportion of the total worth of humanity while a fifth of humanity stills suffers intensely or dies of hunger.
Since you can barely escape consuming their wares, so you are left with a choice :
– Split your savings in ten and buy as many shares of each as you can…
OR
buy local from now on?
If however you are shocked enough to delve deeper into the matter, consider this : there are 12 million millionaires on Earth but 12 million people a year die of lack of water but 12% of the world uses 85% of the water. Motorola, the world’s 355th corporation weighs almost as much as Nigeria, 120 million people in population and Africa’s second economy. The bottom 40% of Americans also equals 120 millions people and owns .3% of the nation’s wealth ( so much for the Land of Opportunity Myth ). 1.2 billion people earn less than a dollar a day. 1.2 billion people have lack access to clean water, etc.
Yes, I choose these examples for the repetitive value of the number 12 but here is one more :
The top one percent of the World earns more than the bottom 57% combined.
Ask yourself if you want to contribute to this inequality … and if you don’t, go back to the image above and chose to change your buying habits?
Cash for thoughts, Tay.
http://worldcentric.org/conscious-living/social-and-economic-injustice
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