Nestle boycott

[JodieG]

http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html

This website details everything really. I'm sure people have heard this and already boycott them but we've only recently become aware of this and started to boycott them.

On the next link scroll down to the twins postcard photo, it highlights why lots of people feel so strongly about this. Warning the photo is distressing. The first few pics on the link are funny but the twins one is very, very sad.

http://www.babymilkaction.org/shop/pcards.html

Basically nestle try and get women in developing coutries to feed their babies formula milk, they start by giving feel samples and then they charge what is about the same as a third of a weekly wage for people in this country for one tin. So the mother dilutes the milk more which is bad for the baby and also has to use dirty water to make the bottles, this results in those babies getting ill a lot more than the breastfed babies. Nestle also "encourages" the doctors to promote the milk too in various ways. Have a look around the website and it's all there.

I realise there are lots of things wrong in the world but this is an issue close to home for me having children myself and it's a start I suppose. I know that one person boycotting won't make much difference but each individual adds up to lots of people and the more that do it the less money they'll be earning and maybe the more they'll think about what they should be doing or at least change the way they do things.