To politely suggest to the Nursery that they shouldn't be using Nestle products?

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DD's otherwise excellent nursery serves some nestle branded cereals. This doesn't sit well with me as I don't think a place that cares for children should support Nestle. I imagine it just hasn't crossed their minds but it does bug me that her fess are used to buy products from Nestle. WIBU to take in some baby milk action stuff and make a suggestion they switch products? Yes I know they are are bigger things to worry about but I do believe if a nestle boycott is worth doing, then it is worth doing right.

Good point screaming, but really that's never going to happen, despite or even because of government 'obesity targets.'

I agree with organiccarrotcake; if everyone just sits back saying 'well the boycott isn't hurting them so what's the point' then indeed what would be the point; but thankfully many many people see that their own small action contributes to something larger that really has and will continue to make a difference.

You may well be right occ that people who have been there and seen it are more likely to make the effort. dh lived for years in East africa and so his experiences have definitely contributed to our thoughts and actions as a family. But that doesn't give an excuse to those with no experience, just an impetus to those of us who have to tell others about it, yes in a reasonable manner ie to inform rather than to force. I don't think the OP ever wanted to force the nursery to change, she was simply asking for ways to politely suggest the nursery look at their decisions, and many on the thread think it would be fine to inform the nursery staff about BMA etc in a polite manner.

I know people mean well by this boycotting lark and really it may have made sense in the first few weeks when you needed to make a point to Nestle. After that though it become less sensible as time went on.

I get this warm feeling when I think that all the companies out there making alternative products to the nestle ones are genuine caring companies that never break any rules, never sell formula to poor countries, never put profit before their customers health and welfare and so on.

The warm feeling is where I pissed myself laughing at the very idea. I guess they are laughing too.

Hey I just had a thought. That baby milk action group is not funded by those other companies is it? Wouldn't that be embarrassing.

Oh onagar your last line has had me PMSL. Time for the next big press coup I think. Whatever would the Grauniad make of it?

I think just by looking at BMA website you can see there is precious little funding nevermind from big brands with lots of marketing spend

If they were doing it it would be well covered up . . . let's have a conspiracy thread all about it!

Arf. 5% anti-Nestle campaigning, 95% perpetuating The Front while those behind it spend their days rolling around in cash and complaining their diamond shoes are too tight.

There are conspiracy theories built on less

When DD1 started at nursery I put on her form that we didn't want her to be given any Nestle products... her keyworker asked why, I explained and the next time the shopping order was put in there were no Nestle products purchased.

I never asked them to stop using those products in the nursery, just requested that DD1 was never given them.

Please let it be true that the BMA IS controlled by a consortium of rival companies! it would be fun wouldn't it. :o

If we just say it is a couple of times people will start repeating it anyway "it must be true! I read it on MN"

SE13Mummy there's another thread in active where you will see that some other brands are actually nestle anyway - it just doesn't say so on the outside. So your DD was probably getting nestle products anyway.

Also the other companies do the same things you hate nestle for you know. The only difference is you don't get any MN cool points for boycotting them.

The conspiracy theory would be funny if this wasn't so serious. Babies are dying and all you can do is joke about how BMA might be funded? Sure, call me a killjoy/not someone who can take a joke/etc but there are some things that just aren't amusing. People who devote their lives to trying to help others (such as Mike Brady and his team) and babies who are dying, children who are stolen for slaves and people whose crops fail because of the water Nestle steal from them are just no laughing matters.

If it makes you feel happy to have a good ol' giggle about your little theory, then you go ahead. You're clearly not going to bother with the boycott, and you're clearly not interested in what Nestle do in the world. That's fine, that's your perogative.

But if you actually want to know how they're funded, just ask for their annual accounts. It says very clearly how they spend their £100,000 a year and where the income comes from. That's right - £100,000 a year. Compared to the millions and millions spend on marketing by Nestle et al. And no, none of it comes from Nestle's competitors. Unless Save the Children has gone into the baby food business.

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Because it is bullshit. because lots of companies do the things which you would blame nestle for, but no need to boycott them as you don't get MN cool points for it.

There may have been some sense to it right in the beginning (though I have my doubts about that) but now it's something people do so that can post that they do.

If you want to protest something try the catholic church. They are killing more people in their developing countries then nestle ever could.

MN cool points?

Blimey. What a bizarre thing to say.

Obviously you have your doubts - I don't because I've seen it - and in the area if Infant Feeding Nestle are the worst, end of. So other companies have to follow.

Ultimately we all do what we want to do, but to state that boycotters do it for "MN points" shows an exceptional amount of ignorance.

onagar, it was Nestle specifically that I put on DD1's form and it was Nestle that the nursery stopped buying. In our home we avoid buying any products that profit Nestle and are fairly on top of which ones they are. I wouldn't expect a nursery to do the same.

Not unreasonable at all, they probably don't know the issues, so information alone might change minds. Buying alternatives is easy, not a burden.

That's with a proviso that you are on top of the current state of Nestle's action / the boycott and it is still worth doing.

This has been going on for years and, as boycotts do, has become so ingrained in many people's normal way of doing things that it's easy to leave the original issue behind. I never buy Nestle, now without thinking, it's habit. I was on top of the issues 20 years ago, not now.