Whats the Nestle "hate" all about?

[Nettie]

I managed to 'enlighten' two people at work today! They're like-minded people but neither knew about Nestle. Hopefully I've got them thinking about what they buy next shopping trip!

Yes - most home-brand products are produced by the big companies. When I worked for Allowries (now National Foods) - we did the home brand cheeses. Pretty much the same stuff as their goods, just less packaging! But it's not disclosed, so I shall boycott them too!

Kelly - typical gutless corporations!

[boomba]

CQ Do you think they would have an app like that for a nokia?????? I would really love it!

So I am on the way to try to change the shop...it has been playing on my mind for a while but just couldnt work out a way to do it without shooting ourselves in the foot? So any suggestions would be great...maybe a list of companies that use wildlife friendly palm oil?

thanks x

[Rouge]

WOW! Thanks the the shop ethical app... I have learnt that King Island in unethical. They are owned by Kirin who genetically modify cattle for human antibody production

I really love this app. And I'll definitely be making sure what goes into my shopping trolley is ethical! Thank you so much for sharing

[Madissun]

WOW! Thanks the the shop ethical app... I have learnt that King Island in unethical. They are owned by Kirin who genetically modify cattle for human antibody production

I really love this app. And I'll definitely be making sure what goes into my shopping trolley is ethical! Thank you so much for sharing

Yep, i found that out today too Rouge

I "enlightened" 2 staff members at work and my mum and 2 clients

And...I made the switch from soy to rice milk! DS was so funny to watch. He swallowed two mouthfuls, took the cup out, looked at it, took two more mouthfuls then said "Whats this one called?" It was much easier to switch than i thought it was going to be!

[krysalyss]

This just in from Woolworths:

Woolworths have agreed to label palm-oil on all their privately owned products whether the bill goes ahead or not. They have also committed to switching to sustainable palm oil by 2015 and have agreed to join the RSPO

[LimeSlice]

Good stuff!

[sas85]

Yeah I'm not surprised they consider giving out who their homebrand supplier's names are to be confidential. Can you imagine if it was generally known how many people would stop paying for the coloured label and buy the exact same product in the generic supermarket brand. My bro works for Kellogs Factory here and they produce generic brand muesli bars etc - exactly the same product, just costs less, different pack - which means less profit margin for the company - so I would guess that the companies that do generic branding for supermarkets would insist on confidentiality clauses as to where it's coming from.

[*Beema*]

I just read through the list of products

The website link on Palm Oil, while graphic clearly gave warning before looking down and my heart broke when I saw the utter devastation, those poor poor Orangutangs

Thankyou for making me more aware, I had no idea they were such a huge company

[ezymay]

I just wanted to pop in here and say how awesome the shop ethical app is! I did a small shop yesterday and was pleased most of the things I regularly buy are good or average at least but I was able to avoid some nasty companies.
I have been sharing the info with my friends too, some of them think I'm nuts but I feel good about making a choice where I can. We do what we can do and every little bit counts.

[Nettie]

Got another conversion today!

Our young trainee had no idea... she now does! Funnily enough, one of my conversions from last week helped me tell her all about it!

The word is spreading...

[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