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Nestlé is a truly awful company, and their CEO has historically been a terrible human being, but… this isn’t a nestlé specific activity? As far as I can tell th

by olliej 3y ago

Nestlé is a truly awful company, and their CEO has historically been a terrible human being, but… this isn’t a nestlé specific activity? As far as I can tell this is standard behaviour from every company involved in snack foods, candy, soda, etc? And they go to great lengths to to hide that’s what they’re doing - most of the “juice” you can buy at US stores are essentially just soda minus the bubbles, growing up in NZ a huge part of childhood was flavored milk (many more and better flavors than in the US - lime was my favorite :) ) than in the US, but those all had absurd amounts of sugar as well, despite being advertised/pushed as healthy milk products for children (I still love them all and try to pretend they’re not functionally soda when they’re available).

dumbfounder 3y ago
I think the point is that the offer products that cover a significant portion of the market throughout your entire life, so they are highly incentivized to act in such a way to get you to consume sugary products (theirs) as much as possible. I haven’t seen anyone proposing reasons why these added sugars might be beneficial. Is there a counterargument? Are these countries where calories are very hard to come by, and thus they make the case that they are helping deliver those calories cheaply?
nemomarx 3y ago
There's some specific things they're doing, like adding sugar to infant formula and milk, that they don't do in Europe but do in lower income countries apparently. That seems like a very conscious thing targeted at very young children?
filleduchaos 3y ago
> this isn’t a nestlé specific activity? As far as I can tell this is standard behaviour from every company involved in snack foods, candy, soda, etc? If you open the article, you might discover that this is about literal baby food for infants as young as six months, not snacks and such for [older] children.
- olliej 3y ago
  Sorry I didn’t include that as well, but it’s the same category of “cheap high calorie”, and nestle is still not alone in that. That’s most cheap baby formula producers

by olliej 3y ago

dumbfounder 3y ago

I think the point is that the offer products that cover a significant portion of the market throughout your entire life, so they are highly incentivized to act in such a way to get you to consume sugary products (theirs) as much as possible. I haven’t seen anyone proposing reasons why these added sugars might be beneficial. Is there a counterargument? Are these countries where calories are very hard to come by, and thus they make the case that they are helping deliver those calories cheaply?

nemomarx 3y ago

There's some specific things they're doing, like adding sugar to infant formula and milk, that they don't do in Europe but do in lower income countries apparently. That seems like a very conscious thing targeted at very young children?

filleduchaos 3y ago

> this isn’t a nestlé specific activity? As far as I can tell this is standard behaviour from every company involved in snack foods, candy, soda, etc? If you open the article, you might discover that this is about literal baby food for infants as young as six months, not snacks and such for [older] children.

olliej 3y ago
Sorry I didn’t include that as well, but it’s the same category of “cheap high calorie”, and nestle is still not alone in that. That’s most cheap baby formula producers