Comments on: NestlÃ©: Fair trading at last (or at least greenwashing)

By: Gernot

Gernot — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:05:11 +0000

Well, I can perfectly understand why somebody is boykotting NestlÃ©, but I can’t join in on – don’t you think the farmers care?
I appreciate their launch of a Fair Trade coffee line, but I will keep on pushing them until all their coffee is Fair Trade!

By: Will Pillage For Yarn

Will Pillage For Yarn — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I have boycotted Nestle since 1990, when I was pregnant with my first child. I began researching breastfeeding vs. formula and became aware of Nestle’s contribution to the murder of third world babies.

I’ll be boycotting them till the day I stop having a choice about what to buy. I don’t care what kind of coffee they buy from farmers or how it’s grown, they’re killing the children of those farmers by glamourizing “Western” style formula feeding.

Not a lot of businesses cause white hot hate, not a lot of companies piss me off just on seeing their name? Nestle is one of the few, the elite, the companies that make me stabby on principle. They’re up with Monsanto in the Evil Scale.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I actually had the chance to vote for the Nestle boycott when I was at Nottingham. For me, the final straw was when Nestle was demanding $6m from Ethiopia when the country was in the grip of a major food crisis and a collapse in coffee prices. I don’t know who in Nestle’s PR department thought it was a good idea for a company making over $5b a year to sue a country whose per capita annual income is only a $100, but I know that finally clinched it for a lot of us.

By: Siel

Siel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the info people -- For those just learning out Nestle, here's a BBC news story about the company's heartless demands on Ethiopia. Nestle ended up dropping this claim due to public outrage.