Nestle and Gerber - Page 2

[jocelynr]

Just wanted to share quickly about this. I am a high school Spanish teacher. In my third year class we are learning about food, cooking and recipes. One of my students is from Mexico and she said she wanted to bring in some Lechera. I said, "No, that's Nestle, and I can't buy/eat their products." They asked why, so I gave a brief explanation. One of the girls said, "That makes me not want to buy their products anymore." I was so happy that was her response. I also gave her the link to the boycott, and she wrote it down to look it up. If I could influence ONE person, it makes this work thing worth it!

[Belle]

I don't buy Gerber products anyway so this doesn't really affect me. I bought some Gerber breastpads when Dd1 was first born and they sucked so I didn't buy any more. Ditto on the Breastmilk bags and the cloth diapers.

Before I had kids, I went to a baby shower where one of the games was "Guess that baby food" The labels were removed from about a dozen Gerber jars. They were the most vile things I've ever tasted (in my adult life). I vowed that my kids would never have to eat that stuff. I won't feed my kids something that I won't eat myself.

Being owned by Nestle really won't make a difference. I try to avoid Nestle when I can, but being that Gerber already makes inferior products it's not that big a deal.

[missjessicajames]

Thank you all for this thread this is the first of the Nestle Boycott I've heard of and after doing some research I'm all on board (and just in time to make sure I didn't buy any Nestle products for Easter baskets). I've gotten my whole family on board now. Not sure our little family will make a difference but we'll certainly try!

[claddaghmom]

I came around from another direction (Nestle's way of bottling water) but I guess I have just more of a reason to avoid them!

I've always disliked Gerber too.

[velcromom]

Originally Posted by KimberlyD0

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I highly doubt the boycotting that has happend has effected the company to badly. After all they're on top.

Maybe. But after learning about their unethical practises, it still is not ok with me to help them out with that by purchasing any of their products. Even if the boycott never had any effect at all, I'd still make sure none of my money goes to them. Did you go to the link the pp gave and take a look?

I've been boycotting for nearly six years. And it's not the chocolate that's harder to give up ( actually, quitting nestle chocolate led me to find out that there's much much better stuff out there!) but at first, oh the Stouffers lasagne... how I craved it. But boycotting nestle is pretty easy -I may find it more difficult to replace RoundUp and MiracleGro in my garden to maintain my personal Monsanto boycott.

But in the end boycotting all these evil companies actually makes my life better... nothing nestle makes is healthy anyway.

[LittleBlessings]

I did not know they were the same company. Thanks for the info

[Devaskyla]

I tried boycotting Nestle, but they own so many other companies it's insanely hard to figutr ou everything they own & boycott all of them.

[jocelynr]

Originally Posted by Devaskyla

I tried boycotting Nestle, but they own so many other companies it's insanely hard to figutr ou everything they own & boycott all of them.

That makes me even angrier--it seems like they are taking over the world. Do what you can, and don't beat yourself up if you accidentally buy something made by them.

[Ophelia]

Originally Posted by Devaskyla

I tried boycotting Nestle, but they own so many other companies it's insanely hard to figutr ou everything they own & boycott all of them.

This should help:
http://www.mothering.com/discussions....php?t=1002608

[mommabear207]

they also own poland springs!

[mommajb]

Originally Posted by amlikam

the hardest part is boycotting the chocolate.

There is plenty of chocolate out there that is better IMHO. Find a local chocolate shop and start tasting local truffles, fair trade, shade grown, single origins, organic, domestic bars of heavenly combinations with flavors like lavender, blueberry, chili, orange, black pepper, and more.


ETA sorry to go so far

[PaulaJoAnne]

When a natural disaster happens in a third world country, and relief supplies are brought in, massive amounts of formula are a part of it.
They then go around telling nursing mothers, that in order for their babies top remain safe, they need to feed them formula.
Then......here is where it gets good......they only provide a certain amount to them for free. By the time the supply runs out, the mothers milk has dried up, and guess what? She is usually too poor to purchase said formula!!
Because of course, you can only get free formula once:

This is why we do not by Nestle products!! And let me tell you, they are everywhere.

[*Erin*]

nestle sucks.
i found out about the gerber thing when i went to sign up for coupons on their site and saw nestle all over it. oh, well, won't be buying gerber anymore. shame, too, i like the graduates snackies for ds, and they cost about nothing with coupons...

it's astounding to me how many brands are owned by nestle...

[AngelBee]

Crap. Just bought 10 onsies Gerber brand.