"Your girlfriend screams when M.C.A.'s in the place." Especially if she's a representative for the Nestle' company apparently.
From today's Page Six:
BEASTIE Boy Adam Yauch is going to fight for his right to criticize Nestlé as an irresponsible, environmental monster - and the Swiss-based food giant is furious.
Last weekend, a top female rep for Nestlé pitched a fit at the Nantucket Film Festival, which Nestlé co-sponsored, during a screening of "Flow" - a documentary bashing Nestlé Waters as harming the environment.
The flick, distributed by Brooklyn-born Yauch (best known as Beasties rapper MCA) and his Oscilloscope Pictures, probes growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh-water supply. It blames the crisis on Nestlé along with Pepsi and Coca-Cola. "It takes a good look at Nestlé pumping communities around the United States and how they pull water out in order to bottle it and sell it. It depletes the water for farms and irrigation," said one insider.
When Nestlé was mentioned in the movie, the shocked company rep jumped to her feet, spun on one heel and stamped out in full view of the producers.
"She stormed out about an hour in when the film named Nestlé," said one attendee. "The company obviously had no idea this content was in the movie. She told an audience member, 'That was one-sided,' on her way out and didn't come back for the Q&A session afterwards."
But Yauch - known for his activism, including helping the Free Tibet movement - makes no apologies. He told Page Six the problem is that Nestlé is "promoting bottled water in general. It's the bottles themselves, the amount of pollution they create and then disposing of them are problems.
"They put pretty pictures of springs and forests on the bottles, but in this movie they're getting called out. I think it's great. They lock down water as a commodity they can buy and sell. It's terrifying."
The movie, directed by Irena Salina, hits New York screens this September. A rep for Nestlé declined comment.
1 comment:
This is total B.S.
All these idiots want to single out bottled water as being horrible and polluting landfills.
Tell me something... how many bottles of water do you see in the cooler at a gas station or Wawa compared to sodas and other drinks that are packaged in plastic??
They never want to say anything about that though. Why not?
And bottling soda and other drinks uses more water than just bottling the water itself but that's okay.
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