Tuesday 3 January 2012

Ignorance or Unawareness?

Teddy, thanks for your comment earlier today. I extended my search and have two more thought provoking images for you!!



Additionally I felt that it would be a good time to explain why Nestle is centre to many of these images. 

In March 2010, the company faced a huge crisis that could have ruined their public reputation over accusations made by Greenpeace that the company was sourcing its palm oil from Sinar Mas plantations, of which had caused widespread rainforest and organutan habitat destruction. The news article below was published in the Guardian and gives a more in-depth description of the accusations made by Greenpeace and how Nestle dealt with the claims. Greenpeace evidently made Nestle central to their campaign to raise public awareness of the actions of large multinational companies and the part they can play in contributing to large environmental issues such as this. There was a shift away from people being genuinely unaware of products containing unsustainable palm oil.  Those who continued to buy Nestle products were viewed as ignorant.
         




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