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net.flame
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!houxt!govern
Mon Feb 8 10:33:08 1982
Nestle's flame from net.cooks
To Avoid flaming at net.cooks about politics, I'm saying this here.
The Nestle's people :
1) Make good chocolate, But so does Hershey's
2) Make an amazing number of other food products, many good:
Libby's Stouffer's Jarlsberg cheese(so I hear)
3) Engage in various offensive marketing practices in third-world
countries, specifically selling baby-formula to people who
- are too poor to afford it
- don't have adequate sanitation to prepare it
- often can't read the labels (illiteracy OR language differences)
- don't know that the "nurses" who recommend the stuff are
paid by Nestle
- badly need the nutrition that formula can't provide
- badly need the food they could have bought instead of formula
- often can't breast-feed because their babies are put on formula
for their first few weeks
I strongly urge all of you to boycott Nestle.
(FLAME OFF) Thanks; Bill Stewart
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