Ahouxt.141
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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