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To write to Nestle

141 replies

PrammyMammy · 03/01/2010 23:51

and plead with them to make Creamola Foam?

I can taste it now, and really fancy some. Every few months or so i crave it, raspberry flavour.
Does anyone know why it isn't around any more? Wasn't it really popular?

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FimbleHobbs · 04/01/2010 10:07

I boycott Nestle and so do the DCs, and we all love chocolate. Its really not hard at all - there are loads of other brands. We lead thoroughly spoilt lives in comparison to the mothers and children that Nestle is destroying with their 'marketing' practices, its really no big deal at all to have a mars bar instead of a kitkat. [massive understatement emoticon needed here]

ImSoNotTelling · 04/01/2010 10:13

Just looking at differentID's link and shocked to see that the CofE and Methodists apparently have multimillion pound shareholdings in Nestle.

I am very surprised I have to say. Nestle's unethical practices are extremely well publicised.

mowcop · 04/01/2010 10:23

goodness, I honestly didn't know that about Nestle, but will no longer be buying their products. I find it a bit odd that they are involved with Body Shop. I always thought they were very ethical, or am I being a bit dim?

differentID · 04/01/2010 10:28

She sold out in the 90's.

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 04/01/2010 10:28

mowcop it's convoluted - I think the Body Shop was sold by Anita whatsit to L'oreal (or their parent company) which is also owned by (or owns) nestle. It's tenuous but it exists. It was set up as an 'ethical' company by anita whatsit but then she sold it for maximum profit

pigletmania · 04/01/2010 10:31

Kat thats your opinion, its like people giving to certain charaties as that is close to their heart really. You obviously are passionate about it and see it to a different way, but as i said i am considering it, not just about the formula issue (mydd was ff as not able to bf), different id has provided an article about child slavery and imsonottelling as provided new info to me about cofe and Methodists shareholdings in Nestle which is wrong, Christianity should not be playing a part in practises like this and that is somthing that i do disagree upon, though not joining the Nestle boycott formally would look at the list provided and avoid certain products made by them.

pigletmania · 04/01/2010 10:36

I have heard that Nestle have bought various non food comapnies such as L'Oreal, its hard to know where every product comes from especially if they dont say Nestle on it. While i will try and avoid the obvious there are some less obvious products that you dont know about

weegiemum · 04/01/2010 10:45

piglet - "giving" to charities is totally different to "giving" to a mega corporation such as Nestle.

I've spent time in Central America where I met women who had lost babies due to Nestle marketing practices, I've seen the marketers dressed as nurses in the supermarket aisles, promoting formula. I've visited a coffee plantation where coffee was grown for Nestle and families were earning about $1 a day and had no medical care, no land to grow crops, no money to feed their family but were given Nestle powdered milk when their babies were born.....

I can't choke down a nestle product - i refuse them even in other people's houses, they don't come into mine.

But I suppose if you like the taste, that's more important than other people's babies dying, so good for you!

weegiemum · 04/01/2010 10:48

this is pretty comprehansive

pigletmania · 04/01/2010 10:49

If you read my post weegiemum i said that i am considering not buying their products after reading some more information.

weegiemum · 04/01/2010 10:51

SOrry piglet - very slow typer here (supervising kids stripping Christmas tree!)

pigletmania · 04/01/2010 10:52

I have read the list it is a lot of products, will try though i do still have a few nestle products though.

differentID · 04/01/2010 10:55

Piglet- when I found out how many pies NEstle had their fingers in, I printed out a copy of all the brands that were affiliated and kept it on me. Even now, I occasionally refer to it.

would you consider that, if it will help in your shopping trips? it doesn't take long to remember which brands you usually use are owned by them.

I've even gone off on a rant about "fucking Nestle" at a visitor from head office when he caught me in a bad mood on break and commented I wasn't drinking coffee
He however said he would look into it, so here's hoping.

TheBrandyButterflyEffect · 04/01/2010 10:57

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pigletmania · 04/01/2010 10:58

Yes i will avoid, though like somebody said i hope they do not buy Cadburys that would really be hard. I tend to shop at Co op as its at the end of my road, and get their products their chocolate is quite nice.

differentID · 04/01/2010 10:58

They do have a monopoly on condensed milk don't they? I found another brand in Home Bargains a few weeks back and stocked up.

differentID · 04/01/2010 11:00

After what they did to Rowntree I think there would be riots if they went for cadbury's. BEsides, Would the monopolies commision not get involved if Nestle went for such a huge market share?

Bessie123 · 04/01/2010 11:12

brandybutterflyeffect on another tangent, I think I know your school. How old are you?

pigletmania · 04/01/2010 11:13

I hope so different, i did not realise the extent of their practises really, thought that it was just about the formula issue and just selling formula in the third world, not that they dress up as nurses to promote it. I used formula as bf was not successful so was all up for the ability to buy formula if bf is not going right or non successful, after all if it wasnt there my baby might have died as there was no other nutrition.

WickedWitchSouthWest · 04/01/2010 11:26

ong I'm so glad I read this thread...I knew about Nestle's disgusting practices re third world formula, but child slavery? HOW can these people live with themselves? I'm really sad about Body Shop too, I had no idea that Nestle had a stake in Loreal and my Body Shop shower gel is my little treat! Can anyone suggest a good alternative? TIA

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 04/01/2010 11:29

It's not about being anti formula - my DS also needed formula to survive as I can't produce enough milk, it's a life saving resource in some cases. But aggressively promoting formula through misinformation to women who cannot afford to continue with it and don't have the means to safely prepare it is unconscionable. Yet they do it.

StealthPolarBear · 04/01/2010 11:31

thanks Reality
boycott starts now, although i'll be using up the stuff i do have in

differentID · 04/01/2010 11:33

stealth- that's reasonable. Waste is pretty silly.

Even my dh doesn't buy anything Nestle any more.

BoysAreLikeDogs · 04/01/2010 11:34

piglet I am very admiring of your willingness to explore the issues, well done indeed

ImSoNotTelling · 04/01/2010 11:36

I see what you mean piglet. No it's not about formula at all, it's about how nestle promote it.

I must admit I am someone who whenever I see one of these threads thinks "oh yes nestle" but I have trouble remembering when I'm in the shops on autopilot. We don't buy much cocolate though so the obvious one for us is the breakfast cereals.

Then I just thought - I usually buy own brand cereals these days - they could be made by anyone couldn't they, including nestle. That makes it trickier.

I think you're pretty safe with stuff from the co-op though they are really ethical if their ads are to be believed.

There's so much to remember though I avoid loads of stuff and my brain isn't what it was...