Have been boycotting for two years now. Truly hard to avoid though.

This needs more upvotes than the post itself. One of the tactics they've applied is sending samples of formula (straight from maternity wards) so the milk production doesn't develop as it does and families are dependant on formula for survival. I think the Swindled podcast does a decent job in detailing this story

And don't forget, the mothers own milk supplies would dry up after starting the babies on formula, but then the poor mothers cannot afford to buy the formula after their samples have run out. So many babies literally starved. Nestle is and was well aware of what their practices caused to happen, but they didn't give 2 shits, as long as enough people in Africa would buy buy buy. They are most evil of evil

Nestle are draining the world's aquifers for bottled water., At the World Water Forum in 2000, Nestle pushed for making access to drinking water from a “right” to a “need,”. The California draught is down to the aquifers being drained, wanna guess who one of the main offenders is? Starbucks recently announced they would transfer their Ethos water bottling facility from California to Pennsylvania, Nestle CEO Tim Brown said: “Absolutely not. In fact, if I could increase [water bottling operations], I would.”

That Nestle is promoting unhealthy food should come as no surprise, but the level at which they operate it is simply staggering. A recent report by the UK Consumers Association claims that 7 out of the 15 breakfast cereals with the highest levels of sugar, fat, and salt were Nestle products. But while Nestle’s labels aren’t simply misleading, they have also been downright false. In November 2002, police ordered Nestle Colombia to decommission 200 tons of imported powdered milk, because they were falsely relabeled, not only as a different, local brand, but also with a different production date. A month later another 120 tons suffered the same fate, causing uproar among the Colombian population. Nestle bringing old powdered milk from a different country and labeling as local and new is not only unethical and illegal, but it poses health hazards for consumers.

California has epic droughts, but Nestle is drawing California water to bottle and sell.

They also let children work on their cocoa plantations, and in truly questionable conditions. But not just Nestlé this is a very common practice among non-fairtrade chocolate producers.

In 2005, the cocoa industry was, for the first time, under the spotlight. The International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit against Nestle (among others) on behalf of three Malian children. The suit alleged the children were trafficked to Côte d’Ivoire, forced into slavery, and experienced frequent beatings on a cocoa plantation. In 2010, the US District Court for the Central District of California determined corporations cannot be held liable for violations of international law and dismissed the suit – a controversial decision which has since been appealed. But even if Nestle wasn’t legally liable for these abuses, they are, at least morally.

Don't forget the part where they tap publicly accessible water sources then keep everyone else from touching it, via lawsuit. Which causes those sources to not go where they normally go, causing droughts of various levels.

In 2002, Nestle made what turned out to be a colossal error: demanding that Ethiopia pay them back a debt of US$6 million. There’s nothing wrong with that per se… if Ethiopia wasn’t facing extreme famine at the time. For a company that has 29 brands that make over $1 billion a year, asking a famine-stricken country to pay you back 6 million seems questionable, to say the least. Nestle’s claim dates back to the 1970s when the military regime in Addis Ababa seized the assets of foreign companies.

The CEO literally said water should NOT be a public right. He wanted to be able to controll 100% in some areas and spent tons of money trying to get it reclassified

The 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal. Six infants were killed and 860 were hospitalized with kidney problems after Nestle products were contaminated with melamine, a substance sometimes illegally added to food products to increase their apparent protein content. In October 2008, Taiwan Health ministry announced that six types of milk powders produced in China by Nestlé contained low-level traces of melamine and were removed from the shelves.

Yes, this is the company that says no one has the right to have water as they are trying to buy up water rights in third world nations and make people pay for their water. It is getting very nasty with basic rights to maintain human life.

The Swiss multinational made a deal with the wife of the infamous dictator from Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, buying 1 million liters of milk a year from a farm seized from its rightful owners by Grace Mugabe Grace has taken over at least six of Zimbabwe’s most valuable white-owned farms since 2002, building a farming empire from illegally confiscated farms, which led to an international boycott, as well as EU and US sanctions. She is known for her ridiculously lavish lifestyle, which includes overseeing the construction of two luxuriant castles. In 2014, she was given a doctorate diploma only three months after signing up for the program. Nestle went forward with the deal though, even as the country’s agriculture-based economy was collapsing and inflation was reaching unheard of levels.

I thought this baby-formula scandal was in 1974. Is it still ongoing?

Don't forget their cocoa plantains are using child slave labor :D

Last I heard that was decades ago. I know many organizations that have been in Africa(and other places) for over 20 years teaching women about breast feeding, period products and condoms etc. BUT the "problem" with what used to be with Breastfeeding is that there weren't water sources enough to keep mama's hydrated to produce enough milk. Also when the moms drink contaminated water, they vomit, get severe diareah and then they can't produce milk then either. So horrible to be in that situation :( I'm glad red cross, UN and other places have been drilling fresh water wells for everyone. Then they can produce mommas milk(humans and animals!)

They also lobbied to change water from a human right to a human need, which means that they can sell (gouge) it instead of having to provide it for free. There's also a town in the US where they stole the towns water and people (children) developed serious health conditions from it. They are also illegally bottled water in California WHILE we are experiencing a drought. And the absolute worst: they bought two young girls to work on a farm. They freaking have slaves.

Not to mention all the water they steal from poor countries just to sell it back to them.

That is the most evil f**king thing I can think of right now off the top of my head. I will never give them a penny again if I can help it.

The source for all the stuff I posted was Mihai Andrei's article on zme science

uNaLiVeD ....really?

They would also give a set amount of formula for free. The formula would last just long enough for the mothers to stop producing breast milk.

It is the most sanctioned company in the world

Wow, really?! Aren't all corporations evil? I'm being serious, there all about deceiving potential customers, while stomping on every single employee they have that's not near the top, like CEO status.

Not only Nestle do this.....

Which part of Africa? Surely not where I'm from

That is truly evil and heartbreaking

One little known miracle of mother s milk is that if the baby is exposed to a disease mom is not immune to the baby s saliva can 'tell' the breast and the immunity will be supplied in the next feeding.

You can say " killed" you know. Unalived is dumb.

Don't forget the Child Slaves in West Africa

I had no idea their tentacles reached out so far . . . .

He didn't even mention the purchasing of springs and natural water resources

Agreed

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No more evil than General Electric. Worlds biggest Thermonuclear Weapons Manufacturer, Weapons Manufacturer and owner of Sara Lee Bakery

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But you looove Pfizer and Moderna, we bet!

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Baby formula sucks so bad for babies either way. It's so sad what some formula babies went through and where they could have been...😔