As I was reading through the list of my classmates names and blogs I came upon one in particular that reminded me of a topic I had presented in regards to ethics in my comm 299 public speaking class. It was a fellow classmate Amanda’s A-M-A-N-D-A’s BLOG blog:
Her blog discusses the vast line of products nestle has and how they offer different types of products in different countries. What many consumer’s fail to know about nestle is that there is a Boycott of Nestle that has been going strong since July 7, 1977, in regards to their infant formula.
The violations committed by Nestle are described in INFACT Canada: Nestle Boycott
Nestle’s actions disgust me, as Amanda mentioned they have hundreds if not thousands of products that sell well and make money, you can ask any consumer and if they look at the labels of candy, food, frozen dinners they would see how the nestle logo is hard not to find ! I tried not to purchase Nestle products, and it was seemingly impossible at times because there are so many that you wouldn’t even think of. My point is Nestle you are making money, why exploit those who have little to begin with in third world countries? You can make your money off first world mass consumer’s, why is that not enough? Why do you have to take from those who have next to nothing?
Nestle essentially tricks mothers in developing countries into thinking that they need to be feeding their infants formula right away. They have their employees pose as doctors and trick them. Even though in these countries the water is contaminated and then is mixed with the formula. Breast milk is best for your baby for the first few months of his/her life. It is free for these less fortunate mothers and better than this formula, yet Nestle’s influence causes them to spend a weeks worth of income on this formula because they think it will be better as they are manipulated by Nestle. Also see
Nestle Boycott
