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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