Nestle Boycott (and others): What They Did & Why They Are Boycotted Globally

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

GM is hardly "terminator technology" - although I do agree that Monsanto haven't done the GM cause any good with some of their silly "look what we can do!" engineering that doesn't do the world any good.

Terminators were machines and had no genetics. If Monsanto is doing terminator technology stuff then that's a whole nother kettle of fish.

[Astrid]

Food Inc is worth watching with regards to Monsanto. Their treatment of farmers in the US who tried to seed save is just plain shocking.

[BellyBelly]

I do not support animal testing at all. I don't believe animals were put on the planet to be used to mess up and play with, I find it to be cruel. Who would want a life like that I believe they deserve equal rights. Its an issue very close to my heart. Its a shame so many research dollars go into looking for non-natural solutions, when there are so many naturally occurring things that can heal. Its all about the money though.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I do not support animal testing at all. I don't believe animals were put on the planet to be used to mess up and play with, I find it to be cruel. Who would want a life like that I believe they deserve equal rights. Its an issue very close to my heart. Its a shame so many research dollars go into looking for non-natural solutions, when there are so many naturally occurring things that can heal. Its all about the money though.

Animals used for testing are kept in better conditions than most pets. Until they're tested on and killed, of course. But lab animals have a high standard of living and health for most of their lives. Many pets cannot say the same. Nor can many animals in the wild. If it were not for testing, many of these animals would have been killed ("pest control") or not born at all. And I would not want to take drugs that hadn't been trialled before. If they've been trialled on humans for over a decade, fine - but if they hadn't done animal testing first and it was a new drug then no WAY would I take that drug. (Cosmetics are fine for human trial only though.)

Lab animals are kept in infinitly better conditions than a lot of meat animals too. Same for a lot of wool-providers, egg-layers and milk-givers. Not that I'm saying these animals are always abused, just that lab animals HAVE to be better kept because lab animals can't have a secondary illness prior to testing.

[Nelle]

I only boycott Nestle based on their unethical formula stuff. Probably animal testing is another thread really but I tend to think like TFB - cosmetics etc I'd rather go natural anyway, but for research into serious illness and furthering our understanding of curing disease, my world view does place human life above animal life. Not that we don't have an important responsibility towards taking care of the earth and its creatures, and I do think with GM stuff, we need to proceed with caution (although, once again, it's the human issues a la Monsanto that I take issue with the most). It's just my world view, and I get that not everyone thinks that way. xo

[luna moth]

I don't believe human life is any more important than animal life. We're just animals that can build fancy stuff. But you're right, Nelle, whole other thread possibility.

Meanwhile, I think it's very kind of Nestle to give us such a broad range of reasons to hate on them.

[Phteven]

GM is hardly "terminator technology" - although I do agree that Monsanto haven't done the GM cause any good with some of their silly "look what we can do!" engineering that doesn't do the world any good.

Terminator technology is named thus because it is engineered to produce sterile offspring. Since large numbers of farmers rely on seed saving for their next crops terminator technology means that they are forced to buy seed that they may not be able to afford not to mention the implications of cross pollinisation - farmers who have not bought terminator seeds may find their seed stock is damaged by their neighbour's crop. The potential for crop failure and famine is horrific.