08 février 2006
LA CHOCOLATERIE
jai entendu quequun parlé de tça lautre jour : ça mintriguait, alors je suis allé sur internet
ps : marie-christine et moi nous disons souvent : "on va checker ça sur internet !" : cen est presque rendu un running-gag
saloute
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i heard somebody talking about that the other day : i wanted to know about it, so i went on internet
ps : marie-christine and i often say : "we ll look it up on the internet !" : it s almost a running-gag
saloute
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http://www.rockmonkey.org.uk/Nestle
Nestle are a large, multi-national, name-changing organisation who sell Foodstuffs to people.
What they also do is make powdered milk. They make lots of powdered milk. One day paediatricians started to tell people that breast milk was better for babies than powdered milk. They weren't just saying this; they had lots of impressive numbers and words with which to back it up. This left Nestle with lots of powdered milk that they couldn't sell to people in the WesternWorld because most of the ones with kids also had tits too. So they started looking around for people who didn't know that powdered milk wasn't as good for babies as breast milk. They found them on a rather large continent predominantly populated by black people called Africa. Now parts of Africa are not as well developed in terms of infrastructure as the WesternWorld and so some people are less well educated and will believe, as most people will, anything told to them by someone in authority. Nestle went to some of these people and tried to sell them powdered milk but since they weren't a people who would buy any old tat simply to own it they asked why they should buy powdered milk when it came out of their jubbly bits for free?
This is where Nestle turn into bastards.
They said that powdered milk was better for babies than breast milk in contravention of the International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes. Many people believed this and so bought the powdered milk. Powdered milk requires water to reconstitute it and in parts of Africa water can be hard to come by. Since the parents wanted their children to be healthy they would use what little clean water they had to make up an inferior substitute for breast milk to feed to their babies. This would leave the parents either without clean water or sometimes without any water at all and also, since they were no longer using their breast milk, they stopped lactating as well.
Nestle's lies led to many deaths, both of children and parents, and also affected the development of the children's immune systems.
The NUS were one of the groups to actually do something when they heard about this rather than going 'meh'. They banned all Nestle goods from Student Unions and wrote many petitions. The Nestle boycot is international and was first brought into effect in the US by INFACT∞ but the problem was highlighted by the War On Want who are affiliated to the international group SOLIDAR, all of whom are areligious and apolitical.
The problem is that Nestle are big. Huge in fact. They won't care that a small group within society have banned the products of one of their divisions from a limited number of retail outlets that usually only have a select customer base anyway.
Thankfully the point of a boycott is not to harm a company's profits but is a) to draw attention to the issue and b) to create a PR problem for the company. The NUS boycott is clearly effective in this respect as most people reading this page probably first heard about this issue because of it.
But Nestle are still bastards.
ps : marie-christine et moi nous disons souvent : "on va checker ça sur internet !" : cen est presque rendu un running-gag
saloute
.........................................
i heard somebody talking about that the other day : i wanted to know about it, so i went on internet
ps : marie-christine and i often say : "we ll look it up on the internet !" : it s almost a running-gag
saloute
.........................................
http://www.rockmonkey.org.uk/Nestle
Nestle are a large, multi-national, name-changing organisation who sell Foodstuffs to people.
What they also do is make powdered milk. They make lots of powdered milk. One day paediatricians started to tell people that breast milk was better for babies than powdered milk. They weren't just saying this; they had lots of impressive numbers and words with which to back it up. This left Nestle with lots of powdered milk that they couldn't sell to people in the WesternWorld because most of the ones with kids also had tits too. So they started looking around for people who didn't know that powdered milk wasn't as good for babies as breast milk. They found them on a rather large continent predominantly populated by black people called Africa. Now parts of Africa are not as well developed in terms of infrastructure as the WesternWorld and so some people are less well educated and will believe, as most people will, anything told to them by someone in authority. Nestle went to some of these people and tried to sell them powdered milk but since they weren't a people who would buy any old tat simply to own it they asked why they should buy powdered milk when it came out of their jubbly bits for free?
This is where Nestle turn into bastards.
They said that powdered milk was better for babies than breast milk in contravention of the International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes. Many people believed this and so bought the powdered milk. Powdered milk requires water to reconstitute it and in parts of Africa water can be hard to come by. Since the parents wanted their children to be healthy they would use what little clean water they had to make up an inferior substitute for breast milk to feed to their babies. This would leave the parents either without clean water or sometimes without any water at all and also, since they were no longer using their breast milk, they stopped lactating as well.
Nestle's lies led to many deaths, both of children and parents, and also affected the development of the children's immune systems.
The NUS were one of the groups to actually do something when they heard about this rather than going 'meh'. They banned all Nestle goods from Student Unions and wrote many petitions. The Nestle boycot is international and was first brought into effect in the US by INFACT∞ but the problem was highlighted by the War On Want who are affiliated to the international group SOLIDAR, all of whom are areligious and apolitical.
The problem is that Nestle are big. Huge in fact. They won't care that a small group within society have banned the products of one of their divisions from a limited number of retail outlets that usually only have a select customer base anyway.
Thankfully the point of a boycott is not to harm a company's profits but is a) to draw attention to the issue and b) to create a PR problem for the company. The NUS boycott is clearly effective in this respect as most people reading this page probably first heard about this issue because of it.
But Nestle are still bastards.
