But who did the white farmers seize it from in the first place? I have no time for Nestlé either, but tend to see red at European handwringing about the plight of the poor poor colonists.
What about the poor poor black Africans who now have a far less reliable food supply because of the way the land redistribution was fucked up? If each farm had been handed over to its own workers there might have been a point, but handing it over to Mugabe's mates regardless of their ability to use the land did massive damage.
Oh, I completely agree, absolutely. But keeping the land in the hands of the white farmers wouldn't have been a solution either. I don't think this was a straightforward ethics call for Nestle: one answer might have been to disengage from the country entirely, but as the rep says, that would have damaged the workers' rights also.
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