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Absnasm is mostly elsewhere.

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I still don't do Nestlé.

I’ve boycotted Nestlé for years because of their aggressive policy of encouraging mothers in the third world to use formula milk rather than breast milk. This policy has contributed both to health problems stemming from malnutrition and mixing the formula with dirty water, and to financial hardship for strapped-for-cash families forced to pay a premium for inferior powdered milk once both the free samples and the mother’s breast milk run out. All in all, it’s a nasty, money-grabbing, vicious and, frankly, evil little policy and while it received a fair amount of publicity in the ‘80s and ‘90s, it doesn’t get so much coverage these days, leading to an assumption by many that this odious practice no longer goes on. But it does, and it’s become even sneakier and more subtle than before. So, before you pop off to make yourself a cup of Nescafé to enjoy with your Kit-Kat, I urge you to read this article from today’s Guardian, and think again. For more info, try Baby Milk Action.



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Good god.

I’d heard of people boycotting Nestlé, but I never looked into why. I feel terrible now for not taking the time to research it. Thank you for highlighting this – you have one more Nestlé boycotter on your side as of today.

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If you look at their website,

there’s a lot of things they make. It takes a bit, you select the category on the left side and the brand on the right.

jkd

here's a link

http://www.nestle.com/All_About/Glance/Main_Brands/Main+brands.htm

They own Purina?

Crap. I just got my kitties used to Go-Cat dry food, which is a Purina brand. It’s cheaper than Whiskas and better quality than store brand, which are the only other readily available options. Sigh. Back to the drawing-board.

My mother rarely swears

but this policy made her so mad that I mentioned Nestle once when I was a teenager and she spat out, “Nestle sucks!” and then clapped her hands over her mouth, looking shocked. I’m going to check out the Nestle site to see what all they make so I can choose not to buy those items and educate others. Thanks, Abs!

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I know...

they make my favourite vanilla coffee, too. Bah humbug.

Absnasm is mostly elsewhere.

I know, they're cheeky like that.

They seem to have cornered the market in some areas. I can’t find any (extremely useful) coconut milk powder that isn’t made by Nestlé-owned Maggi. And I bloody miss Kit Kats.

This is ever so slightly off topic, but I found out recently that Masterfoods have started putting animal products in loads of their chocolate bars, including Mars Bars, Bounty, Snickers, Twix and Milky Way. It’s only non-veggie whey, but even so, when there’s a perfectly good veggie alternative – and there must be, they’ve been using it for years – it seems a bit ridiculous.

I saw that...

...about Masterfoods too, and I just can’t understand why they would do that. It’s bizarre.

Maggie the cat has been on 43T for 6.5 yrs!

noooooooo

not Kit-Kats as well!

Have you tried

ethnic shops for your coconut milk powder? I’ll keep an eye out for it next time I’m in my local one. And Tesco (over here at least) stocks a brand called Blue Dragon, who make a canned coconut milk concentrate, if that’s any good.

Maggie the cat has been on 43T for 6.5 yrs!

Wow.

I had no idea.

calypte ready for something new :)

Not quite so committed

as they are a very hard company to avoid completely. But it helps that I think Nestle chocolate tastes rubbish. Bring on the Cadbury’s any day!!

And yeah – SOOOO what is with Mars and animal rennet!? Talk about a giant leap backwards!

Absnasm is mostly elsewhere.

They are tough to avoid.

I do my best. Thing is, you can’t avoid every evil multinational, so I just pick a few anti-faves and boycott them. And yes, I know, what the bloody hell is the point of that rennet thing?! It’s like when Smarties (Nestlé anyway) started using cochineal again – made out of squashed pregnant beetles!

calypte ready for something new :)

mmm crunchy!

Sorry, that is flippant. I struggle to have many problems with squishing bugs, though – stomped repeatedly on one myself 20 minutes ago! Actually, I didn’t know about the smarties. Sigh, the world is a scary, confusing place these days :(

Absnasm is mostly elsewhere.

Hah!

I thought you meant Crunchie then, and I was about to wade in with “That’s Cadbury’s, Crunchies are fine!”

Would you stomp on a bug if you knew it was pregnant? I accidentally drowned a tiny fly yesterday and felt really bad about it.

calypte ready for something new :)

f*** yes!!

If I knew it was pregnant and about to hatch a hundred more of the little !!!!s I’d jump on it double time!! ::shudder:: Okay, so I’ll never be a good Buddist… I’m very VERY intolerant of creepy crawlies in my living space!

The point of the cochineal

was that they made a big deal of removing all artificial colours and flavours from Smarties. (Not that that makes it ok or anything.)

Absnasm is mostly elsewhere.

I know.

But honestly, given the choice I’d rather have chemicals. Chemicals or squashed beetles? It’s not exactly daddy or chips.

Have you seen

We feed the world ? They interview Nestl�’s big boss at some point, about the question of water privatisation.

He says you have two positions about this problem : some people think that water is a good, and, being a good, it has a price, and you’d better give it its price, and then have policies toward people who cannot pay that price.

And then the NGO have an “extreme” (he’s the one who speaks here !) position, saying that water is something everybody should have access to, freely, because everybody has the right to access it.

And then he throws that glance at the camera, meaning “Well, it’s obvious that second position is just stupid, isn’t it ?”.

Now, I’m really wondering, is that guy stupid, or totally cynical, or does he really believe what he says ?

And if he does, do we really belong to the same species ?

Absnasm is mostly elsewhere.

Good god.

That’s awful. I haven’t seen that, but I’d like to. It does make me wonder if people who have these viewpoints have actually taken a look at the consequences of their actions. Having said that, a fat wage packet can be terribly convincing in matters of ethics.


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