I’m honestly a little surprised that no one else has noted this here but Nestle remains a top producer (worldwide) of baby formula. In how many ways did American and other Western activists castigate the bejesus out of Nestle in the 80’s and 90’s for their marketing efforts to sell formula in third world countries, particularly Africa? M…
I’m honestly a little surprised that no one else has noted this here but Nestle remains a top producer (worldwide) of baby formula. In how many ways did American and other Western activists castigate the bejesus out of Nestle in the 80’s and 90’s for their marketing efforts to sell formula in third world countries, particularly Africa? More recently, my fellow environmental activists have asked people to boycott Nestle products because that company has stolen and bottled millions of gallons of water in places around the world including California - where, you know, epic droughts have changed everything. Is it possible Nestle seeks to help Republicans regain power? 😎
I see corporate collusion to put a Republican “regime” in place so they can do whatever they want while too many folks are just trying to keep body and soul together. I breast fed as long as I could but pumping at work was not easy. And some women just can’t. Let’s focus on electing good Dems. Biden’s speech was a good start!
I have avoided Nestle products for years. They are pretty up front about how ugly they are.....water is not a right or something like that from their CEO.
I just made the same observation about greedy corporations last night as another story about inflation rolled on. I actually muted it because I am tired of this being front and center without an explanation about why it is happening.
Exactly. It gets all the headlines, as does Biden’s “low numbers”, without explaination, and allows listeners to just assume it’s his fault, instead of giving the reasons of worldwide inflation, and unprecedented propaganda attacks from the right and from foreign actors. In the past, people have come together to support whoever is the president, at least to some degree-but now the division fueling the authoritarian takeover is meaning that Americans are turning against their own democracy.
Oh, I think they are turning against a fight. We are remarkably comfortable at the higher economic levels of this culture and at the lower levels we are too desperate thinking about the basics of survival to pay any attention to. the politicians, like Biden, who are quietly doing their jobs. To get the attention of those who need to hear what we have to say the most requires a lot of noise and a touch of ugliness. The Republicans have a lot of both. I don't think Americans are necessarily turning against our democracy as much as they/we are reacting with confusion to a genuinely insane situation. It's classic, really. We turn against whoever seems to have the power to feed our children or get our jobs back, see that our kids stay hungry and our men and women stay home because there's no work, and we hear the voice of the carnival barker promising everything we want. Thanks for bringing this up, Wendy. It's a real horror show
Yes yes yes, Sheila, thank you for the reminder. I’ve been boycotting Nestle since learning in the 1980s that they were sending “professional” appearing reps into hospitals worldwide to encourage women to use formula instead of breastfeeding.
I’m honestly a little surprised that no one else has noted this here but Nestle remains a top producer (worldwide) of baby formula. In how many ways did American and other Western activists castigate the bejesus out of Nestle in the 80’s and 90’s for their marketing efforts to sell formula in third world countries, particularly Africa? More recently, my fellow environmental activists have asked people to boycott Nestle products because that company has stolen and bottled millions of gallons of water in places around the world including California - where, you know, epic droughts have changed everything. Is it possible Nestle seeks to help Republicans regain power? 😎
I see corporate collusion to put a Republican “regime” in place so they can do whatever they want while too many folks are just trying to keep body and soul together. I breast fed as long as I could but pumping at work was not easy. And some women just can’t. Let’s focus on electing good Dems. Biden’s speech was a good start!
...and let's not forget that Nestle is the largest water seller in the world and believes ALL water should be bought (from them, of course.)
I have avoided Nestle products for years. They are pretty up front about how ugly they are.....water is not a right or something like that from their CEO.
They are commercial monsters, sort of like Charmin
I just made the same observation about greedy corporations last night as another story about inflation rolled on. I actually muted it because I am tired of this being front and center without an explanation about why it is happening.
Exactly. It gets all the headlines, as does Biden’s “low numbers”, without explaination, and allows listeners to just assume it’s his fault, instead of giving the reasons of worldwide inflation, and unprecedented propaganda attacks from the right and from foreign actors. In the past, people have come together to support whoever is the president, at least to some degree-but now the division fueling the authoritarian takeover is meaning that Americans are turning against their own democracy.
Oh, I think they are turning against a fight. We are remarkably comfortable at the higher economic levels of this culture and at the lower levels we are too desperate thinking about the basics of survival to pay any attention to. the politicians, like Biden, who are quietly doing their jobs. To get the attention of those who need to hear what we have to say the most requires a lot of noise and a touch of ugliness. The Republicans have a lot of both. I don't think Americans are necessarily turning against our democracy as much as they/we are reacting with confusion to a genuinely insane situation. It's classic, really. We turn against whoever seems to have the power to feed our children or get our jobs back, see that our kids stay hungry and our men and women stay home because there's no work, and we hear the voice of the carnival barker promising everything we want. Thanks for bringing this up, Wendy. It's a real horror show
And I believe Nestle is also the culprit in Michigan’s clean drinking water problems.
Yes yes yes, Sheila, thank you for the reminder. I’ve been boycotting Nestle since learning in the 1980s that they were sending “professional” appearing reps into hospitals worldwide to encourage women to use formula instead of breastfeeding.
Nestle's exploitative global marketing of baby formula:
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-04-2022-who-reveals-shocking-extent-of-exploitative-formula-milk-marketing?fbclid=IwAR3Wej6QfKM81RqroYK5qhp5m2fV9ZJjqS29e9-io8XxujOpWmkEdHSBWPc