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.

I think that practical help in the form of giving to charities that help Third World Countries and going out there yourself and doing something would be more useful, than a boycotte that has been going on for 30 something years and may still go on for another 30 years.

Not read all of posts, just the OP. YABU. You're entitled to your beliefs, but you can't go foisting them onto others.
As long as nursery are feeding your children a healthy balanced diet, that's all that matters.
Just because YOU disagree with the ethics of a company or whatever, doesn't mean the whole world has to stop and agree with you.

Chesnut I think you got it in errr ... a Chesnut! Anybody who says "I boycott cars and flying" is just kidding themselves - OP, you already said it is an otherwise excellent nursery - and IMO they are hard to come by, personally I wouldn't like to rock the boat and be known as "That one that harped on about the brand of cereal" They may well shop at somewhere like Costco which only sells the branded stuff and I can bet you a pound to a pennt they will all be big ole' nasty multinationals that sell formula as well as crack to little babies then leave them to fend for themselves ... It has already been said but pick your battles carefully!

We did a project on the Nestle problem when I was in year 9 so over 10 years ago and I'll be honest with you - nothing has changed since then - Except maybe less people are arsed

I'd be more concerned with my clothes, jewellry and make up

I have no idea why my phone didn't put the T in Chestnut twice ha ha

You're having a laugh, OP.

YANBU - our nursery boycotts Nestlé products. The manager is Ugandan Indian and has seen the damage that Nestlé has done at home.

When I worked in E Africa I frequently saw women making up milk with filthy water and giving it to their babies, who often died of typhoid or dysentery as a result. The local health workers desperately tried to stop it but there was little they could do in the face of flashy advertising and free samples from the big babymilk companies.

This isn't about beliefs surely? It's about right and wrong.

How come with all this boycotting over the years nothing has been done! If it was that affective surely Nestle would have changed their practices by now!

What's wrong with asking them? They can only say no. You are not threatening to remove your children from their care, or ranting about it to others to give them bad publicity.

If they are an ethical nursery, they may well be interested in switching from Nestle - though it seems surprising if they aren't aware of the issues already.

Although I'm curious to know what would happen if they agreed to the boycott and another parent complained - along the lines of her child prefers a type of cereal that the nursery no longer stocks. They, too are paying fees.

I agree with others, there is nothing wrong with having a word with the manager about it, and putting a few leaflets in Nursery for others to see, but you should not force the issue onto the nursery.

YABU I explained to nursery why WE don't use Nestle and left it up to them.

Can'tMakeEveryoneSeeTheSameThingsYouDoTiggaxx

pigletmania When I patronise a business (excuse the male verb, it's the only game in town) I don't expect to see other customers' political propaganda there.

Ariesgirl No, it's about opinions about what is right or wrong. Using Nestle products is not murder, rape, or theft; to name three things which are wrong.

wigglerowck Spot on!

I don't see how anyone can effectively boycott all Nestle's products. Here is a list from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands

Do you take a list of them all to the supermarket?

Who knew that they own 30% of L'Oréal and its brands including Garnier, Maybelline, and Lancôme as well as The Body Shop stores?

And things like Felix, Buitoni and San Pellegrino. I don't think it is on this list but I believe they are also behind the Jenny Craig diet.

I've been to their facility in Lausanne. They have a great canteen .

andrew, we'll have to agree to disagree. Because I think that encouraging women with no access to clean water to use formula rather than breastfeed is just wrong. I was talking about the company - forgive me if I wasn't clear.

There was a thread ages ago, may have been in Site Stuff re L'Oreal as Mumsnet had accepted advertising from them.

I don't boycott Nestle products.

My child goes to a nursery, I'd be none too impressed if they decided to boycott based on another parents personal beliefs.

Choose what you want for your own home, but spare everyone else please

@andrew:

When I patronise a business (excuse the male verb, it's the only game in town) I don't expect to see other customers' political propaganda there.

I assume you spend most of your time patronising women on Internet forums which is why you probably haven't noticed the flyers for local causes, demos, meeting and debates to be seen in any independent coffee shop, bookshop or record store. Never seen a poster against a local hospital closure or a supermarket planning application in a high street shop?

I wouldn't but at the same time yanbu. What nestle have done (and probably still are doing) is disgusting and as a company they should be ashamed of themselves.

on the one hand YANBU, on the other hand my own boycott has run out of steam a bit because as mentioned already, the alternatives you're choosing are also owned by nestle, its not just the obvious ones! :-(

no harm in asking, its not as if they are the cheapest either!

Slitting the throats of animals is wrong too - but it isn't my place to ask my childrens carers or place of education to go vegan just because I am.

Sorry, pressed "send" too soon. The obvious compromise is to ask the nursery not to offer Nestle products to your children, Zimm, just as my DCs school is instructed not to feed her meat products.

malinois Not the Starbucks I use - that's all I can tell you. Events, certainly, but not political matters. Perhaps the management there share my view that everyone is welcome whatever their private opinions.

And would you be happy with posters in favour of a supermarket application? Or, which is more probable, against the residents at somewhere like Dale Farm? I know there was a strong movement locally against the Newbury Common protesters - they weren't universally popular in the area.

And damn it, it's not my fault if the word patronise has two such very different meanings. All right, I could have said use a business and deprived you of your change to have a dig . . .

And now I come to think of it, there are real live women and men, some of them with nursery-age kids, who work for Nestle or whose employers depend on them as an important customer. Should they be made to feel unwelcome at their children's nursery?