Whats the Nestle "hate" all about?

[Inanna]

Yes Nestle` have a lot of tentacles. They own 30% of Loreal.
I think it depends how you shop how difficult it is to avoid. I know lots of people who refuse to purchase Nestle`. Whilst you are right that one person won't make a dint - collectively we can. Not only that it's the Energy behind it.

When folk collectively come together to stand for a cause it creates positive Energy.

Having a Nestle free Easter requires a conscious choice on the part of the consumer. It's about thinking before you put your dollars toward what many (myself included) see as a very unethical company.

[Miss H]

When folk collectively come together to stand for a cause it creates positive Energy.

I like that and you are so right. It's called the collective conscious. I believe in it too and it's what makes people fight wars too. A bit off the subject here but I too am boycotting Nestle and any product with palm oil in. It is difficult but if we want to make a difference for our kids then it's about time we start taking notice what is happening in this world and making choices to protect what's left of it.

[LimeSlice]

It is really actually not that hard to avoid Nestle - the more sustainable and macrobiotic a life you lead, the easier it becomes.... It can even be said it is not an ethical choice but a lifestyle choice...a health choice.

Just as easily is it to avoid Palm Oil - begin looking at FAIR TRADE and ORGANIC producs and you will find it. It is easy - when as Mrs H pointed out - you make a CONSCIOUS CHOICES to live better.

[Phteven]

There is a booklet you can buy that is a great help when shopping.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...klet-card.html

Nestle have also refused to stop sourcing their cocoa from sources that use child labour.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...d-slavery.html

[meow]

I think just choosing not to buy Nestle chocolate could make a huge impact. Sure, the company will live on with profits from every other item they sell but a huge message will be sent to them that we consumers are not happy and will not buy their products if they don't change their practices. Voting with your dollars can make change.

That's easy enough for me- I don't much like their chocolate anyway. And as for a Nestle free Easter- I didn't even know they made Easter eggs. We always get Cadbury, Pink Lady or Lindt eggs.

[Trillian]

I buy Australian Made and owned products where possible, so apart from coffee (which is DH's preferred brand atm) there isn't a lot of nestle that I buy thankfully. No one is saying that anyone has to go completely Nestle free, but think about the things that are important to you. Maybe the whole formula issue isn't a worry for you, but saving orangutans might be at the top of your priorities kwim? Every little bit that you do makes a little bit of difference and in the grand scheme of things it probably wont damage their bottom line, but surely the pay off is your conscience? That you know that you aren't contributing to it? That may not be by purchasing products but what you do as a whole - like Maz said, she does a lot in different ways to those not using Nestle.

The big thing for me is that when Cadbury briefly changed their recipe to use palm oil, the people spoke and they stopped that practice so they get reps for at least listening to their customers but Nestle wont budge, they just don't give a ****.

[wysiwyg]

I didn't realise until went to the Zoo (MEL) recently that currently food manufacturers do not have to label palm oil as palm oil and are therefore not giving people the choice as to whether they want to buy products with palm oil in or not. The Zoo are running a campaign to try and get legislation changed so that palm oil must be labelled as palm oil so that we can then all choose whether we want to purchase products containing it. If you google palm oil action there is information on how you can identify unlabelled palm oil if you want to avoid it.

[farmageddon_t]

Nestle are unethical on just so many levels, from their baby milk scandal to using palm oil &
the worst forms of child labour in their chocolate bar production. I have been blogging on these issues for some time, if you want to have a look my blog is blogscrambled.com.
I also boycott Coca-cola for their unethical conduct as well, and any other company that uses the very dangerous, chemical sweetener aspartame, which is being put into so many products these days, including Robinsons fruit shoots e.t.c. It should be banned but, sadly is now being re branded as a natural sweetener ( that has meth alcohol as one of it's components ) and is put into so many products that are branded especially for very young children. It is a travesty, that these companies are doing all they can to get kid's ( hooked ) onto their products from such a very early age & make themselves out to be child friendly.
Aspartame: Sweet Misery A Poisoned World

[Snowy Love]

My boycotting of Nestle this easter does nothing as I haven't bought Nestle products for a long time. With the palm oil in the chocolate, if it has the same effect as when Cadbury did it it makes an ordinary tasting choc taste bad so why would you want to buy it even if you don't care about the orangatans?

[Traveller]

I have boycotted all Nestle products for 2 years now. It really is not that hard (although I got caught out when we moved back to Australia as I didn't realise Uncle Toby's came with a Nestle stamp). But in general we boycott everything they make, including cosmetics, and this is a great talking point with friends. In general I think about 1 in 5 start a boycott of their own to some degree (even if it is just coffee).

The boycott works well in the UK, to the extent that Nestle cannot sell baby formula there due to the outcry it would cause. They are aware of the action and (my naive self thinks) will eventually find it more profitable to be ethical everywhere, to increase their profits drastically in developed countries. Profits are all they see, so this is where we have to sting them.

I boycott because of the formula advertising guidelines, which Nestle is consistently the biggest violator of. This vastly contributes to the 1.5 million babies every year who die because of unsafe formula feeding. Baby Milk Action explains it more eloquently than I can though. Interestingly my brother boycotts Nestle due to their use of child labour, and now others are doing the same because of their use of palm oil which, like other morality issues, they are the biggest sinners.

[BellyBelly]

Moving to the ethical living forum - where you'll find loads more info and links on Nestle too.