To write to nestle?

[Fishface77]

All i want are tubes of orange smarties. They are the only ones with flavour. Shall I write to them and ask them to make only tubes of orange smarties?
Will anyone join me in this quest?

Their worst crimes are in Japan.

Green tea flavoured KitKats, ffs.

Haven't knowingly bought Nestle products in 30 years. Tough though as they own so many companies.

Have you seen their latest bottled water ad? It makes out you're a great mother/person if you drink their brand bottled water and feed it to your offspring. You must really CARE.

This from a company whose CEO said clean drinking water is not a human right.

Don't apologise, you weren't to know.

You don't have to boycott them. It's your choice.

But this was the 80s and well before they started denying people water and giving out 'free' formula in third world countries, so maybe you won't be quite so lucky now.

They were doing it before the 80s. The boycott started in the 70s.

Plenty of non-Nestle kitkats about too.

It's a shame smarties aren't made by rowntrees anymore like they used to be. Evil massive corporations have bought out all our chocolate companies

I used to be able to identify the. I'm out of smarties purely by taste. My dad used to blindfold me and feed me smarties and I'd call out the colours. I was always right.

Ah, the days before internet were so fun.

The colour of individual smarties I mean. Dyac

Nestle are evil and buying smarties is tantamount to approving if their quest to prioritise profit over the lives and health of babies.

You can buy bars of orange flavoured chocolate though.

They did tubes of just orange in the past. Nestle didn't out orange chocolate in them so they were rubbish and people didn't want them. No point trying again of they're just going to do the same thing.

Nestle are evil and buying smarties is tantamount to approving if their quest to prioritise profit over the lives and health of babies.

Not just babies. Everyone

Throne, my brother used to do the same but I never understood how?

Can you taste the various E numbers or something?

Yes do it !
I'll write to them with the same request

Fishface77, you are not being unreasonable to write to Nestlé.

Dear Nestlé,

I’m writing to let you know I’m joining the boycott against your products in response to your continued breaches of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. Until Nestlé sticks to its decades-old promise to abide by the Code around the world, you won’t get another penny from me.

I know Nestlé gave free samples to hospitals and clinics in the UK until 1994. I know of allegations stating that it continues to do so around the world. I know Nestlé was fined for labelling violations in Costa Rica and responded sluggishly to labelling problems in Malawi. I know the Advertising Standards Authority ruled against your claim that “even before the World Health Organisation International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes was introduced in 1981, Nestlé marketed infant formula ethically and responsibly, and has done so ever since.” I’ve seen IBFAN’s “Breaking the Rules” reports; there’s no need to send your own.

I know Nestlé gives to charities that help poor communities, but while it continues to aggressively market milk substitute in countries where breastfeeding could save millions of lives, your charitable work is only an empty publicity drive I’m not falling for. I urge you to drop your double standards and help the world’s poorest people by complying with the spirit and the letter of the International Code.

Until you do so, I won’t buy any products made by Nestlé or its subsidiaries. My money will go elsewhere. Like others in the boycott, I will urge my friends and family to do the same.

Yours sincerely,

Fishface77

P.S. I shall miss Smarties, especially the orange ones.

thepeopleszero.com/the-nestle-boycott/nestle-brands-and-products/

FFS

Are you feeling suitably patronised now OP?

YABU wasting your time writing to them about a sweet full of crap. You COULD write to them saying you are unwilling to buy the shit that they sell due to their disgusting business practices and general evil doing. Yes, Monsanto et al are no better. Don't buy crap is my answer. Buy better, and buy less.

Ignoring all the handwringing for the moment. My mother reports that in her youth (several millennia ago), ALL smarties had a different flavour.

Haha, I nearly wrote an AIBU last night with regards to stealing all the orange smarties out of my daughters huge Christmas tube. YANBU!

I suspect Nestle might already been written to about a million times by people angry over the baby milk issue. They probably have an entire department set up to deal with it.

It is likely that they have X-ray scanners in their mail room because protestors think the best way to ask Nestle to stop poisoning poor babies is to kill and maim their office staff trying to do their job.

I admit to having eaten Smarties and will say YANBU to the OP for wanting tubes all of the orange ones as they are the best. And I am that your light-hearted Friday afternoon thread didn't go the way that you expected it to.

Monsanto are even more evil than Nestle.

There's not much left that we can eat with a clear conscience these days as nearly everything seems to come at huge expense in either ethical terms, ecological terms or health.

And I love orange Smarties too

I bet if you look into it, pretty much all multinational companies will engage in business practices that are ethically distasteful.

Coca Cola etc probably take over water supplies in countries where people struggle to get clean water and then pollute with effluent too. And they will be pushing expensive unhealthy soft drinks on people when it would be better if they could drink cheaper clean water etc etc.

Any boycott would be a drop in the ocean that they wouldn't generally notice.

I love the orange smarties, DS hasn't yet discovered that they are the most awesome of all the colours so I still get away with stealing them all under the guise of sharing.

I loved the blue white cocolate ones as well, it must have been a limited edition promotion thing they did years ago.

Haha, I nearly wrote an AIBU last night with regards to stealing all the orange smarties out of my daughters huge Christmas tube. YANBU!