Boycotting nestle

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" Does any one else do this? I'm about to give it a go. One of my best friends died suddenly a couple of weeks ago, one of the things she always insisted on was avoiding nestle (that and natwest! ). A couple of us have decided that since she can't really avoid nestle any more that maybe we should to make up for it. "

Whilst i'm sorry for the loss of your friend, if you had any deep felt objection of this company you would have being doing this long ago.

What is your own opinion ( and do you personally beleive in it ), or is this just a tribute ?

Mark
 
I really couldn't care less - if I enjoy a products a company makes then I will purchase them. Flippant? Ignorant? Yep, I suppose so.
 
Telescopi said:
Yes but KFC are also in trouble for using hydrogenated oils for all their cooking. These oils are not natural, they are produced in a chemical plant and are thought to be the main cause for the rise in heart disease in the western world.
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KFC are in trouble for that? Someone must really have it in for them, walk down the biscuit/cake/confectionary aisles in a shop and try and find something that doesn't contain hydrogenated oils (which are harmful in any quantity).
 
KFC are in trouble for that? Someone must really have it in for them, walk down the biscuit/cake/confectionary aisles in a shop and try and find something that doesn't contain hydrogenated oils (which are harmful in any quantity).
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thats why you need to buy fresh from small producers and organic where the additions to food are heavily regulated and almost all prohibited.
 
CBA to read the whole thread because it's a funny subject and everyone has an opinion, I usually end up falling out with someone. I've been avoiding nestle (and others) for 4-5 years now. Handing out addictive and un-useable baby milk powder is but the start of the nestle tirade.

EDIT: Ok so I read it. And penski has a point really..

I don't do enough to consider myself an activist. Although boycotting is probably the most effective form of protest against large corperation (on a large scale). Personally I have attended 5-6 protests (nothing to do with nestle unfortunately) and have in the past spent weekends talking to people and handing out leaflets/flyers in town. On the other hand I put £20 worth of esso in my motor every few days, and untill recently smoked 30 fags a day, so hey.
 
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my college are tyring to boycott there products :) - basically once they find a decent alternative it will be taken. it been an issue for quite some time
 
And that is why government regulation of businesses is required.

Free market, within the confines of government regulation please.

Having said that, Nestle products are sold at work and virtually all of Greece is hooked on Nescafe, a very important ingredient of Frappe :o So can't really avoid them...
 
At the risk of starting this off again ;)

mrdbristol said:
What is your own opinion ( and do you personally beleive in it ), or is this just a tribute ?
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Yup..its basically a tribute of sorts. I pretty much have Lopéz's view myself which is why I havn't gone all rabid about defending the cause.

But then again I went shopping the otherday and found that the only thing I bought that was nestle was felix...and the cat prefers asda's own anyway. Its not that great a hardship really.
 
goldilocks said:
if you're going to avoid nestle, go the whole hog and ditch all of your procter and gamble products too
i have been for the last 7 or so years, and i can't say i feel like i'm missing out on anything at all
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Out of interest, what have we done to upset you so much?
 
And what has anything on the P&G site got to do with the rubbish spouted on that other site?

P&G has no animal testing laboratories, it has spent 190 million on developing alternatives, and has won awards for the work it has done. Animal testing (at licenced laboratories) is only done as a last resort, when required by law.

We aren't hypocritical like The Body Shop "We believe that testing cosmetics on animals is unethical, unnecessary and should be banned. So we do not test our cosmetic products or ingredients on animals, nor do we commission others to do so." - no, they are just using ingredients that were tested by other companies.

As I said, wouldn't want the truth to get in the way of a good story now would we...
 
unclelonghair said:
Stange rant.
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I have nothing against P&G and I never said I did. The P&G site I found before was just from googling "Proctor & Gamble Boycott".

I posted the stuff from the P&G site about how they avoid animal testing if possible and how they are really pushing towards viable alternatives, in order to validate your comment and show that I understood. Hence, "So I see."

Jesus, calm the hell down before you have a seizure.
 
Sorry, but it's one of the things that really annoys me. If you read even 10% of the bad press we get you'd think we were responsible for every bad thing that goes on in the world.
If people actually researched properly they'd find things aren't as black and white as they think, but I guess they wouldn't have anything to protest about.

Anyway, for those of you who believe all the rubbish that's written about P&G- try reading this

PUR was a commercial disaster, but P&G saw that there was a need for it, and kept manufacturing it to provide either at cost or for free. It has been used in most of the recent disasters, and is also being used to try and prevent disease in many of the world poorest countries.
 
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