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[prettyfly1]

explain the nestle thing to me. I was just reading the thread about kids choices and this came up twice as a "vey bad thing" but I have to be honest (and I apologise in advance for being ignorant) but I dont really know why, although I think it is something to do with aggressive marketing practises on baby food in the third world?

Nestle coerced poor women in the developing world to give up breastfeeding in order to feed their children Nestle formula.

Despicable.

Really? That is shocking. Thanks for the explanation

Encouraging formula feeding in places where there is limited accees to fresh is at best a dubious marketing ploy and at worst completely immoral.

There is a lot of info on Google.

to a fresh water supply, sorry.

and even if there was fresh water, the inability of lots of mothers to read the instructions and therefore make up the correct concentration of formula makes it not particularly safe for infants

The problem I have with the boycott is that Nestle aren't the only company doing this. They are certainly among the worst, but so is Danone and no-one boycotts them.

I never feel like I've been presented with all sides of the story on this one so I don't boycott Nestle, though I'd rather buy something that was not produced by a multinational corporation given the choice, as the bigger companies get the more immoral their practices seem to become, or it's harder to check- though I'm sure some smaller ones aren't that hot either. I get most stuff Waitrose own as I think they are quite ethical. And it's nice, and not too expensive. But I wouldn't baulk at buying a chunky Kit Kat.

no such thing as an ethical company.

Even fairtrade is limiting as those that sign up are bound into hefty contracts that mean they can supply the fairtrade company and that company only.

Nestle boycott has achieved nothing - nothing wrong with boycotting purely because you don't agree with the practices but also worth considering that all the own-brand alternatives are still manufactured by nestle, in the same way that washing powders (for instance) are all manufactured by the same company. So it's not actually possible to boycott them.