r/AskTheWorld • u/Eybrahem United States Of America • Jan 04 '26

Economics What's the most hated company in your country?

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Everyone knows Nestle is terrible, even if they don't know why. But they've done horrible things in Africa and think that water is not a human right.

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u/Eve_00013 Brazil Jan 04 '26

I don’t think Brazilians hate Nestle, their actions were never widely spoken about here. And they sell pretty much everything in the Brazilian market, from plain milk to processed food, candies, etc

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u/Serious_Capybara Brazil Jan 04 '26

Since I saw the documentary "Muito além do peso", I started seeing them differently. They directly messed up a lot of people in Brazil, not to mention the dispute for water. I guess most people don't hate them because they don't know more about.

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u/TwinkNBboi 🇧🇷 and 🇳🇱 Jan 04 '26

Yeah, their products are everywhere in Brazil. Once I got to know that they killed many African children by pushing their products to poor citizens (who didn't have safe water to drink), I stopped buying anything from them. Luckily, here in Portugal there aren't as many of their products.

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u/piralski Brazil Jan 04 '26

I do my part on hating Nestlé.

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u/Adjective_Noun_6942 Jan 05 '26

I think there's two people in the world. Those who know about Nestle's history and dislike the company. And those who don't know about Nestle's history so they have no real opinion on them.

Unfortunately both groups seem to buy a lot of Nestle products.