I am not trying to convince anyone to join me in this cause, I just want to inform those who may not know about this.
"Let me put it this way instead: if you aren’t boycotting Nestlé, why not? Do you know:
~ The original Nestlé boycott started in 1977 in protest of Nestlé’s unethical, aggressive and patently harmful marketing of artificial baby milk in Third World countries. The company engaged women to dress up like nurses and distribute free samples that lasted just long enough to dry up a mother’s own breast milk. Impoverished women who could not afford to purchase enough of the expensive artificial milk would resort to diluting it with excess amounts of water which led to infant malnutrition. Furthermore, artificial milk prepared with unsanitary water supplies led to unnecessary illness. Add in the fact that the infants were not protected by the antibodies present in human breast milk and children were suffering and dying needlessly as a consequence of Nestlé’s deceptive marketing tactics." April 4, 2007 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
The only hard part about this is giving up the many products and brands that are under the Nestle name. To name a few, Arrowhead water, Buitoni Pasta, Carnation Instant Breakfast, Dreyers Ice Cream, Drumsticks, Gerber Baby Food, Haagen-dazs, Hot Pockets, Juicy Juice, Lean Cuisine, Perrier, Power Bar, Stouffers, Laffy Taffy, Butterfinger, Crunch...the list goes on....check it out for yourselves. At first it was a little difficult, but when you think about why you're doing it, it is a piece of cake. I'm not saying I went through my kitchen and through out perfectly good food, we ate what we had left and decided to never buy those products again. I just want to say that this is not a political point to me, it's about the Mothers that have been mislead and the babies that have died. Thanks for taking time to inform yourselves.
Okay....maybe I'm trying to convince a few people.
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