{"id":687,"date":"2018-04-09T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildu.be\/?p=687"},"modified":"2018-04-10T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T01:26:54","slug":"boycott-nestle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildu.be\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Nestl\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phildu.be\/?attachment_id=762\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-762\"><img data-attachment-id=\"762\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.phildu.be\/?attachment_id=762\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?fit=750%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nestle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?resize=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?resize=174%2C174&amp;ssl=1 174w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I read yesterday that Nestl\u00e9 was approved to withdraw 400 gallons of water a minute in Michigan at the low cost of $200 a year. Meanwhile, the residents of Flint have been struggling over water since April 2014. I find that unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>I started to think about Nestl\u00e9 and an old memory came rushing back. Back in the 70s, when I was a young man, declining rates of breastfeeding led a number of organizations to raise concerns about the marketing practices of Nestl\u00e9 baby formula in developing countries. It was reported that in poverty-stricken cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America, babies were dying because their mothers were bottle feeding them with formula.<\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 contributed to this in three ways, according to New Internationalist in a <a href=\"https:\/\/newint.org\/features\/1982\/04\/01\/babies\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1982 article<\/a>:<br \/>\n<B><UL><LI>Creating a need where none existed.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Convincing consumers the products were indispensable.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Linking products with the most desirable and unattainable concepts, then giving a sample.<\/LI><\/UL><\/B>The result of this marketing push, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.babymilkaction.org\/pdfs\/babykiller.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">War on Want<\/a>, was that millions of babies died from malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/12\/06\/magazine\/the-controversy-over-infant-formula.html?pagewanted=all\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> article, United States Agency for International Development official, Dr. Stephen Joseph, blamed reliance on baby formula for a million infant deaths every year through malnutrition and diarrheal diseases.<\/p>\n<p>It also hindered infant growth in general, said War on Want. Citing &#8220;complex links emerging between breast feeding and emotional and physical development,&#8221; the group said breastfed children walked &#8220;significantly better than bottle-fed&#8221; kids, and were more emotionally advanced.<\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 wasn&#8217;t about to take these allegations lying down. It sued a German translator of War on Want&#8217;s expos\u00e9, which published it in Sweden with the title, &#8220;Nestl\u00e9 Kills Babies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 won the suit in 1976, said <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.babymilkaction.org\/pages\/history.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baby Milk Action<\/a>, but with a caveat: The judge urged them to &#8220;modify its publicity methods fundamentally.&#8221; Time Magazine declared this a &#8220;moral victory&#8221; for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>What Nestl\u00e9 did in the 70s was to create a serious <a href=\"https:\/\/prezi.com\/0xrcn9kd0fnu\/ethical-dilemmas-in-business-the-nestle-baby-formula-scanda\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ethical dilemma<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I am not here to pick at old scabs, but rather to discuss Nestl\u00e9&#8217;s business ethics today. Nestl\u00e9 is drawing water in BC, Ontario, Michigan and elsewhere and selling it all over the world. They are paying virtually nothing for millions of gallons of water and it is being sold individually for as much as $1.20 per bottle. <\/p>\n<p>There are moral and ethical issues here. <B><UL><LI>Firstly the fact that they are basically getting the water for free. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Secondly there are very few jobs created in the bottling and distribution of the product. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Thirdly, one million plastic bottles a minute, 1,440,000,000 bottles a day or, 525,600,000,000 bottles a year are being used and discarded. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Lastly, and a concern that is hotly debated by Nestl\u00e9 is that water drawn from our aquifers and transported away is depleting our aquifers. I don&#8217;t have the education necessary to prove this but I do have an understanding of rainfall, runoff, <a href=\"https:\/\/water.usgs.gov\/edu\/watercycletranspiration.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transpiration and evaporation<\/a> that leads me to accept this postulate.<\/LI><\/UL><\/B>Three years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2099418\/nestle-faces-renewed-criticim-of-their-b-c-groundwater-operations-as-drought-levels-increase\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global News<\/a> reported &#8220;Nestl\u00e9 Waters takes approximately 230 million litres of fresh water every year from an aquifer in the Fraser Valley. They pay $2.25 for every million litres. And that in itself is new, as Nestl\u00e9 was previous able to take the water for free before new legislation was brought in last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the information I have been researching it would appear that the Ontario Government has not as yet renewed Nestl\u00e9&#8217;s permits to draw water at the Aberfoyle and Erin locations. The company is operating legally under the terms of the previous permits. They are asking for a 10 year permit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nestle-waters.ca\/en\/media\/pressreleases\/status-of-our-aberfoyle-and-erin-permits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renewal<\/a>. Nestl\u00e9 has taken over <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.canadians.org\/ea-action\/action?ea.client.id=1899&#038;ea.campaign.id=75037\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one BILLION litres<\/a> since the expiration of the previous contract in Aberfoyle.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of money at stake here. The Washington Post reports that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/07\/16\/how-bubbly-water-became-a-billion-dollar-business-and-big-soda-fell-flat\/?utm_term=.ccf122ce753e\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seltzer water became cooler than Coke<\/a>&#8221; and it&#8217;s not just bubbly water, bottled water of all types has become a multi billion dollar industry.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Brabeck-Letmathe CEO Nestl\u00e9 once said \u201cOne perspective held by various NGOs, which I would call extreme, is that water should be declared a human right&#8221;. At the second World Water Forum in 2000, Nestl\u00e9 and other corporations persuaded the World Water Council to change its statement so as to reduce access to drinking water from a &#8220;right&#8221; to a &#8220;need.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The time has come to end the very practice of selling bottled water period. If we don&#8217;t buy it they will all stop bottling it. If they stop bottling it then the landfills and oceans will not be filled with the remnants of this unnecessary industry. Bottled water is no safer or better tasting than tap water. If you do a little research you will find that it takes 450 to 1000 years for a plastic water bottle to decompose and that they are filling the oceans and landfills at an alarming rate. Here is a Bloomberg article outlining how Nestl\u00e9 makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2017-09-21\/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">billions bottling water<\/a> it pays nearly nothing for. What a great corporate citizen. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do our little part to show Nestl\u00e9 that their business practices, while certainly profitable, are not acceptable to those with ethics, morals and\/or ecological concerns. <\/p>\n<p>Please stop purchasing ALL products from the Nestl\u00e9 family. Nestl\u00e9 provides us with this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nestle.com\/brands\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">webpage<\/a> so that we can determine the scope of their product range. We may not have to include Nestl\u00e9&#8217;s confectionery products in this boycott as they  agreed to sell this part of their U.S. business to Italy\u2019s Ferrero for $2.8 billion in an attempt to look more health conscious. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks<br \/>\nPhil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read yesterday that Nestl\u00e9 was approved to withdraw 400 gallons of water a minute in Michigan at the low cost of $200 a year. Meanwhile, the residents of Flint have been struggling over water since April 2014. I find that unacceptable. I started to think about Nestl\u00e9 and an old memory came rushing back. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phildu.be\/?p=687\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Boycott Nestl\u00e9<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,8,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phildu.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nestle.jpg?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9APuD-b5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":899,"url":"https:\/\/www.phildu.be\/?p=899","url_meta":{"origin":687,"position":0},"title":"But, what can I do?","date":"January 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A friend on Facebook just said, regarding plastic waste, \"We have to figure out how, though - and guidance and help at big picture levels would be nice.\" I responded thusly: The first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, was patented in 1909 and the rest as they say is history. 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