Do Your Choices Matter

If you are a parent, you should have heard of the Nestle food boycott. This has been going on for at least a decade, since I remember it from when Tierney was a baby. Why a Nestle food boycott?

Baby Milk Marketing "breaks rules"

Hawking Disaster in the Third World

The Nestle Boycott

Boycott Nestlehttp://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2007/10/nestle-burma.html

There is a lot more information out there.
In the past, Nestle has been charged with giving out formula, and touting it as the healthier choice, to poor families in Africa. Just enough formula for mothers to lose their milk. After that, the families were forced to spend a large percentage of their income on formula, hurting the whole family economically.

Companies Nestle has an interest in:



From:
http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottnestle




"Nescafe: alta rica, black gold, blend 37, Cap Columbie, Caro, Coffee Mate, Expresso, Gold Blend, Kenjara, Nescafe Organic, Partner's Blend.

Confectionery: Aero, After Eight, Animal Bar, Baci Chocolate, Black Magic, Dairy Box, Dairy Crunch, Drifer, Fab, Fruit Pastels, Heaven, Jelly Tots, Kit Kat, Kit Kat Crunchy, Lion Bar, Matchmakers, Milky Bar, Munchies, Polo, Quality Street, Rolo, Smarties, Toffee Crisp, Tooty Fruities, Walnut Whip & Yorkie.

Mineral Water: Aqua Panna, Aquarel, Buxton, Perrier, Pow-Wow, San Pellegrino & Vittell.

Cereals: Cheerios, Golden Grahams, Clusters, Sheddies, Fibre1, Fitnesse, Golden Nuggets, Nesquick Cereal & Shredded Wheat.

Pet Foods: Arthur's, Bakers, BETA, Bonio, Felix, Friskies, Go-C
at, Go-Dog, One, Purina, Spillers & Winalot.

Other companies: Bio Therm, The Body Shop, Garnier, Helena Rubenstien, La Roche-Possay, Lancome, L'Oreal, Maybelline, Plénitude & Redken."


Most disturbingly, or inconvenient for parents, Nestle now owns GERBER.


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That said, what can your baby eat in a socially concious manner?
Obviously the easiest answer is make you own (just cook and puree with some water in the blender, super easy.

There are alternative brands, but my baby is fussing, so I will leave that research to you.