Boycot Nestlé Products 3

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Why is there a Nestle boycott?

Back in the 1940s, in order to sell more infant formula Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. That was outlawed in the United States but this practice continued in third world countries.

So what’s the problem?

The free formula sample only lasted long enough for a mother’s own breast milk to dry up. Not knowing about re-lactation, these moms would then be forced to purchase formula. Due to a lack of resourcesthese poor mothers would be forced to mix the formula with unsanitary water and/or to make the formula last longer by diluting it by more water that was recommended.

The results?

The results are:

1. Babies died.
2. Nestle made huge profits.
3. 3) In 1977, due to a public outcry over the death of defenseless babies, the Nestle Boycott was birthed. Nestle was found “to be the most unethical of the several companies selling baby formula at the time.”
4. 4) The The World Health Organization – WHO – drafted the International Code on the Marketingof Breast Milk Substitutes, which was signed by much of the world in the early 1980′s and finally by the United States in 1994.

To the present.

That was in 1970′s so why do we still have a Nestle boycott today?

After a very brief reprieve the Nestle boycott was re-launched in 1988 and continues to this day. A recent report called “Cracking the Code” outlines the many present-day violations of the WHO code. This report is available from UNICEF at:

UNICEF

Unit 1, Rignals Lane

Chelmsford, Essex

CM2 8TU

United Kingdom

Tel: (01245)476315

So basically Nestle is still targeted with a boycott because monitoring conducted by the International Baby Food Action Network – IBFAN – has found this company responsible for more violations of the World Health Assembly marketing requirements for baby foods than any other company.

As UNICEF has said:

“Marketing practices that undermine breastfeeding are potentially hazardous wherever they are pursued: in the developing world, WHO estimates that some 1.5 million children die each year because they are not adequately breastfed. These facts are not in dispute.”

The Nestle boycott is an international boycott and so far is recognized in 18 countries:

Australia Canada Finland France Germany Ireland ItalyLuxembourg Mauritius

Mexico Norway Philippines Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom United States

Nestle Boycott: Nestle Owned Companies

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 Nestle Collection Jellytots Kit Kat Kit Kat Chunky Kit Kat – Fairtrade 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	Coffee Alta Rica Black Gold Blend 37 Cap Colombie Cappuccino Caro Decaff Expresso Fine Blend Gold Blend Kenjara Nescafe Ice OrganicPartners Blend Cosmetics Biotherm Body Shop Cosmence Garnier Helena Rubenstein La Roche-Posay Lancome L’Oreal Matrix Maybelline MetamorphosisPlenitude Redken	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 Contact Lens Care Alcon Pet Foods Arthur’s Bakers BETA Bonio Felix Friskies Go-Cat Go-Dog Gourmet One Pro Plan Purina Spiller’s Vital Balance Winalot
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

Sources for Nestle Boycott :

• www.breastfeeding.com
• www.babymilkaction.org
• http://www.natural-motherhood.com/nestle-boycott.html