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brm hits the nail on the head. Their infant formula practices alone are horrible enough to boycott their entire business. For anyone that isn't familiar, they c
by mrgordon 9y ago
brm hits the nail on the head. Their infant formula practices alone are horrible enough to boycott their entire business. For anyone that isn't familiar, they convince people in developing nations to switch to free infant formula so they stop breastfeeding long enough that they stop lactating and must purchase expensive formula instead. The mothers often can't make the formula hygienically either due to poor quality water or other unsanitary conditions so it can lead to many problems.
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott#Baby_milk_issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott#Baby_milk_issue
RIP Blue Bottle and long live Philz, Four Barrel, etc.
- lethargic_meat 9y agoI wonder how much this was a case of poor planning and how much actual corporate malice.
- kalleboo 9y agoViolations can be excused the first time, but after 40 years of malice, it's safe to say it's just evil.
- scalesolved 9y agoIt's absolutely disgusting, I struggle to comprehend how someone can be become detached enough to promote this as a strategy.
- jrimbault 9y agoIt starts with good intentions I guess/hope ? "They're so poor, some of them can't even lactate enough to feed their babies, we should sell them cheap formula so they can compensate" Then the cheap formula becomes itself problematic because they hadn't realized that water itself was dirty and their cheap formula wasn't as good as the expansive one.