Won't be posting a lot my ass....

[conuly]

Two things....

1. Some of my friends have yet to hear that Nestle is evil. Here's your clue. It's about as bad as Walmart. When telling people this, be sure to explain that it's not about breastfeeding v. formula feeding, it's about illegal and unethical marketing practices.

2. Aw, a meme. Bet youse guys all can name three things I've discovered lately for me, I certainly babble enough about them. And direct me to new things. Sci-fi, written or otherwise, is always appreciated, thankies.

Comments

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Is Nestle only evil regarding breastfeeding stuff, or is it a general "all divisions of this company mistreat their workers and bully stores to make them carry only their brand of chocolate" sort of thing?

[conuly]

Well, buying chocolate is already an ethically risky act, considering, but the boycott against Nestle is because of the way they manipulate the markets in the third world, endangering lives both by selling substandard formula there and by giving enough free formula that mothers dry up - and then they either have to water down the formula, or let the kids starve, since they can't afford it. And a lot of times, the water is dirty, so kids die from that. And they also are reported to pay medical officials to say that their formula is better than breastmilk, which would be a lie under the best of circumstances. When the water is dirty and people are poor, those aren't the best of circumstances by a long shot.

*checks Responsible Shopper*

They claim that Nestle purchases cocoa from the Ivory Coast, which uses child labor, which addresses the chocolate issue. There's some other stuff here as well, but I can't vouch for the accuracy of results here.