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The Nestle Boycott

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Hi,

 

Does anyone else avoid buying Nestle products? I've been trying to avoid Nestle for the past few years, to show my disapproval of their aggressive marketing of baby-milk powders in the third world, which contributes to 1.5 million baby-deaths each year.

 

I do miss Kit-Kats!! :roll:

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yes - and have done for many many years...

 

the issue (despite Nestle's heavily financed marketing/spin machine) has not gone away...

 

one tactic that nestle uses is to train local midwives to push milk powder products... (getting babies onto them with free samples in the first few days - and of course when they go home they only have access to contaminated water and the babies get sickness and diarrhoea)

 

many are persuaded (quite falsely) that they will not produce enough milk for twins - so one must be fed on formula.. with the following consequences:

 

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Phil

 

Thanks, Bassett for raising this!

 

http://www.babymilkaction.org/ (not just about Nestle)

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im in tears after looking at that photo, look at the bottle fed babies legs.

 

Unfortunatly, the only milk seth can tollerate is SMA Soya milk. we tried Cow and Gate Soya and it still made him sick.

 

i hate the fact he has sma, but i never wanted to see him strapped to monitors again due to weight loss.

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Thank you so much for raising this - I was aware of the issues, and would never consciously buy anything with Nestle on the the label, but I've just followed the link to the Baby Milk Action website, and through that found the list of Nestle products.

 

I'm shocked at how many things they are behind - even petfood! Because I only buy FairTrade coffee and chocolate, and don't buy breakfast cereals, I haven't actually bought anything on the list but that's more by luck than by deliberate action.

 

I wish I could persaude a few of my friends not to buy KitKats etc .. :(

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Its a tragic situation for these women, often trying to breastfeed several children under 5 - the problem is that the women themselves are so undernourished and dehydrated that their milk often does 'dry up' and they are faced with a very difficult dilemma.

My personal feeling is that they should be promoting/providing contraception not formula milk (but thats a whole other topic for discussion!).

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I'm afraid the list is HUGE:

 

Coffee - Nescafé including:

Alta Rica

Black Gold

Blend 37

Cap Colombie

Cappuccino

Caro

Decaff

Expresso

Fine Blend

Gold Blend

Kenjara

Nescafé Ice

Organic

Partners Blend

 

Dairy products

Carnation

Coffee-Mate

Extreme Viennois

Fussells

Ideal

LC1

Munch Bunch yoghurts

Rowntree yoghurts and ice creams

Simply Double

Ski yogurts

Sveltesse yogurts

Tip-Top

 

Confectionery & snacks

Aero

After Eights

Animal Bar

Baci Chocolate

Black Magic

Blue Riband

Breakaway

Caramac

Chocolate Cuisine

*Colgate Dental Gum

Dairy Box

Dairy Crunch

Double Cream

Drifter

Fab

Fruit Pastilles

Heaven

Henri Nestlé Collection

Jellytots

Kit Kat

Kit Kat Chunky

Lion Bar

*Lyons Maid Ice Cream

Matchmakers

Maxibon

Milky Bar

Munchies

*Nestlé Ice Cream

Polo

Quality Street

Rolo

Rowntrees Fruit Gums

Smarties

Toffee Crisp

Toffo

Tooty Frooties

Walnut Whip

Willy Wonka

Yorkie

 

Contact lens care

Alcon

 

 

 

 

Mineral/bottled water

Aqua Panna

Aquarel

Buxton

Contrex

Perrier

Pow-wow

San Pellegrino

Santa Maria

Valvert

Vittel

 

Other drinks

Build-up

Milo

Nesquik

Nestea

 

Processed meals

Buitoni pasta & canned foods

Herta

Maggi

*Osem/Tivall

*Rowntrees Jellies

 

 

*Cereals

Cheerios & Honey Nut Cheerios

Cinnamon and Golden Grahams

Clusters

Cookie Crisp

Shreddies

Fibre 1

Fitnesse

Force Flakes

Fruitful

Golden Nuggets

Nesquik cereal

Shredded Wheat including: Bitesize, Fruitful, Honey Nut

Shreddies: Coco and frosted

 

 

*Cosmetics

Biotherm

Body Shop

Cosmence

Garnier

Helena Rubenstein

Innéov

La Roche-Posay

Lancome

L'Oreal

Matrix

Maybelline

Metamorphosis

Plénitude

Redken

 

Pet Foods

Arthur's

Bakers

BETA

Bonio

Felix

Friskies

Go-Cat

Go-dog

Gourmet

One

Pro Plan

Purina

Spiller's

Vital Balance

Winalot

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Yup, it is huge. I'm quite surprised at the Body Shop being on there, but I knew L'oreal had bought it, so I should have made the connection.

At my homebirth support group we also had a discussion about Dannone products, (french dairy)

but I can't remember which company makes them

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and us. they make SMA milk dont they? My cousin worked in Africa tryiing to educated the woman how breast is best and the forumla they are 'given' isnt. trouble is when the 'given' milk runs out the womens own milk has dried up.

 

 

I was always let to believe it was cow and gate owned by nestle I got that from a boycott nestle site years ago. Ive avoided them like the plague. Only one problem the only prem milk I could get was c&G. Now I'm quite upset as I've been boycotting the wrong thing if this is the case

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I was always let to believe it was cow and gate owned by nestle I got that from a boycott nestle site years ago. Ive avoided them like the plague. Only one problem the only prem milk I could get was c&G. Now I'm quite upset as I've been boycotting the wrong thing if this is the case

 

Bronze, Cow & Gate are also guilty but I don't think they market as aggressively in the Third World as Nestle. They target mothers here in the UK instead. :?

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Don't forget that Nestle will also be responsible for some supermarket brands, especially cereals.

 

It all depends on how far you want to take it, personally I'm vegetarian and already do my bit to buy ethical food (ie fairtrade where possible etc ). Plus none of my wages fund any kind of factory farmed meat, fish or meat derived products. I think avoiding that huge list of brands would just take it one step too far for me - it's hard enough finding stuff to eat as it is!

 

I fully understand why people would boycott them though. But I'd personally also like to see more people boycotting products with gelatin/battery eggs/isinglass/fish derived omega 3 etc etc.

 

On a similar subject however, I am sick of the do-gooders in this country who try to push breast milk onto new mothers. Our 16 month old was brought up on SMA (veggie of course!) and is perfectly healthy, it was our choice and it should stay that way! The same applies to many friends of ours with older children who are also very healthy.

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We have access to clean water and there is assistance for those on low income, making starvation unlikely, so there is a difference.

 

I doubt that many babies die because they were bottle fed in the UK/ Western Europe.

 

The picture of the mother with twins says it all about bottle feeding in the third world.

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