Heaps of info in our ethical living forum: Ethical & Aware Living - Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Forums ~ BellyBelly. Here are the brands to avoid and why. https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...avoid-why.html

A list of corporate crimes by Nestle, include:

Unethical Marketing of Artificial Baby Milk
Exploiting Farmers
Union Busting
Promotion of GM Food
The Ethiopia scandal
Illegal extraction of groundwater
Pollution
Pyres of Burning Animals
Fraudulent Labeling
Perpetuating Sexism
Promoting unhealthy food
Promoting untested nano-technology
Backlashing against Fairtrade

Yes the Palm Oil thing, check out the short clip on THIS page. Nestle lobbied very hard and got it removed from YouTube. Cadbury stopped using palm oil already due to consumer demand. Nestle say they need til 2015 to stop using it?! What, til the orangutan population has gone?

They are well known for bribery and marketing of formula in third world countries. Picture this: doctor/midwife/nurse tells mother in the Philappines that formula is better than breastmilk and she should try these samples. Mother goes home thinking she's doing something wonderful for her child. She only has dirty, grotty water to make up the formula. Baby gets diahorrea, or worse, even dies. Or, mother gets home, milk has dried up and she cannot afford formula for her baby, and can no longer breastfeed. Or if she can afford it, it costs their entire family salary each month. The WHO estimates that 1.5m babies die every year due to not being breastfed.

Doctors get bribed with air con units, trips, and in poorer areas even food. This unicef mini documentary explains it all: https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...countries.html

Then there is the Ethiopia scandal: "Just before Christmas 2002, Oxfam revealed that Nestlé was demanding millions of dollars in compensation from Ethiopia – precisely when the country was in the midst of an extreme drought that put over 11 million people at risk for starvation."

The list goes on. This company is pure evil.