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

[zimm]

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.

i am not sure what nestle has or is doing that makes you want to boycott them. But i would imagine it has things to do with non fair trade and essentially slave labour in poor countries etc etc

but if you take that stance you may as well boycott everything. There are very few companies/brands that go around not screwing with peoples lives in undeveloped countries.

as for your op of course yabu. what they choose to use/believe has nothing to do with you.

What would ofsted do/say/think about it I wonder?!

Nothing- why should they?

YANBU to request that your DC is not offered Nestlé products at Nursery, but YABU to suggest that they should boycot them because it's what you personally believe to be appropriate.

They are not the only unethical company in the world. You are free to boycott or avoid buying anything you don't agree with, but you can't police it for others.

Good to see the OP has some moral scruples. After her house buying/not buying behaviour last week I had wondered.

Fwiw though Op - you can mention it but don't do so in an expectation that anything will radically change. Nestle's presence is our lives is pretty comprehensive.

mini, that's not the reason people boycott Nestle. Have a read for more information.

OP, it hasn't occured to me to check that my daughter's nursery doesn't do Nestle products. I'll try and have a snoop but I've never noticed any of their products. One nursery I looked at prided itself on not using Nestle products. I was impressed. I think you should say something, but only expect them to stop giving their products to your child and find it such hard work that they switch everything to another brand.

Yabvu you cannot force your beliefs onto others, if you don't like your dc having nestle cereals then send your own in. Other parents dc might prefer Nestle cereals, my dd prefers Cheerios than the supermarket ones and doesn't eat much as it is soi am happy she is eating them. You have no right to make that choice fir other parents who also pay fir the nursery. If you don't like it move your dd

yes you would be unreasonable

and OTT

You can ask them not to serve it to your child, but you have no right to tell them you do not want the children of other people to eat it. Would you like it if a vegan asked for your children to be stopped from eating dairy at nursery?

Mini - read this: info.babymilkaction.org/

OP - YANBU.

In the United Kingdom, 73 student unions, 102 businesses, 30 faith groups, 20 health groups, 33 consumer groups, 18 local authorities, 12 trade unions, education groups, 31 MPs, and many celebrities support the Nestle boycott

Then

the members of those student unions, faith groups, health groups, consumer groups, educations groups, and trade unions;

the councillors who are members of those local authorities;

the owners of those businesses;

and those MPs and celebrities, whoever they may be;

are free as individuals not to buy Nestle formula or chocolate or coffee or whatever.

They are not free to put pressure on others to do so, especially (in the case of the local authorities and businesses) their employees.

In fact no employer has any business asking any employee whether s/he takes part in any such boycott - or wants to.

If anyone can point me in a direction of something that shows that Nestle is worse than any other multinational company that sells formula in the developing world, that isn't by babymilkaction, I'll happily boycott them.

This so called boycott started before I was born and this is the first I've ever heard of it. I will not stop buying Nestle products, it seems like an over the top reaction and verging on a personal vendetta by babymilkaction.

You cannot take your political beliefs to the nursery and take that decision away from parents of other children. Talk to staff about it ask if you can leave some leaflets for nursery manager to say no. Send in alternative cereals in for your dc

I am falling down heavily on the side of people who do not know ONE person in Real Life who boycott Nestle

my kitchen is stocked with products from different manufacturers who I am pretty sure all have some evil in their large multinational stance

ridiculously ineffectual long-term boycott by a small bunch of people

People are starving and dying all over the world because of the cocoa bean trade and dairy farming, where would it end if we all started complaining?

YABU.

Most multinationals (and many smaller producers) are evil in some way or other. Oil companies are among the worst. But I bet you travel on cars/buses/trains/planes fuelled by oil products and eat food transported by lorries powered by these products and even use the many oil by-products in common use. Why Nestle rather than oil? Or cocoa? Or any of the other industries or companies I could pick on?

I think this is the first MN thread I've ever seen that isn't pro boycott. Thank god. What a waste of energy boycotting is.

Do Nestle make products for anyone else. On the boycott list I can only see branded products. Surely they makes cereals and other products for some of the supermarkets.

'I may post over in breast and bottlefeeding to see if I get a different response!'

Thing is, if we can reasonably safely assume that most of the women on AIBU are mums (can we?), then we can also safely assume that most of them have either breast or bottle fed, can't we? Doesn't that make the opinions on here as valid as those on breast and bottle feeding?

Personally, whilst I don't approve of Nestle's alleged marketing practices, I don't think the boycott is the solution. But there's nothing wrong with a polite suggestion, so YANBU.

Oh, and I think YABU fwiw

a 'friend' of mine who works for a student union, has been boycotting nestle for about 15 years. i now take great delight in bringing nestle products to group meetings [evil grin] He is a sanctimonious wanker though.

The problem is, where do you stop? OK, we get that Nestlé is bad, but what about all the other multinational corporations? If you really examined everything you consume, food, clothing, business etc. it'd be impossible to live a normal life without becoming alternately outraged and inconsolable about what goes on.

-watched Earthlings last night and is contemplating living in mud hut, weaving lentils and bursting into tears if I so much as step on an ant but am actually meat-consuming leather-using human parasite-