On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:12:41 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-07-26 3:32 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Wed 26 Jul 2017 08:54:50a, notbob told us...
>
>>> I've boycotted all foods made by Nestle. (I wept when I discovered
>>> Häagen-Dasz is, in fact, a Nestle product)
>>>
>>> nb
>>
>> What's the issue with Nestle's?
>
>Years ago there was a major upset about Nestle pushing baby formula in
>poverty stricken countries and things did not work out well. The stuff
>was relatively expensive so some people thinned it out to make it go
>further. Then there was the problem with the water they were using. I
>guess that had overlooked the issue of contaminated water. I am not sure
>how much that problem could be blamed on the formula, since the kids
>would likely be exposed to contaminated water through bathing. I am sure
>that it would get onto the nursing mother's breasts.
>
That wasn't quite the problem - they decided (rather like cigarettes
today) that it would be nice to get mothers world wide automatically
shoving a bloody bottle in the babys mouth. They must have realised,
but decided that wasn't their part of the ship, that impoverished
mothers would naturally thin the milk out to make the expensive stuff
go further. They were presented with enough free formula at birth to
make sure breast milk was not around once they had to pay for formula.
It was a particularly unattractrive side of big business and how it
will happily use people for monetary gain who can't even understand
they are being taken. So I blame the whole damned situation on
corporate greed.