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something to do with them encouraging mothers in third world to not breast feed by giving free samples of powdered milk, to get them dependant on the stuff.
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just thought I'd add - as an aside - that the boycott of Nestle was actually in protest against their campaign in the third world to convince women that powdered milk was better for their child than breastfeeding. The problem with their claims is that they failed to point out that there are specific guidelines to follow in preparing bottled milk, the instructions on their products were often printed in English, which the mothers quite often couldn't read (if they could even read at all), the water used to prepare the milk was very rarely clean enough for a newborn baby's immune system to cope with if the new mother could get a ready supply of water in the first place, and finally, due to the sheer cost of powdered milk in relation to income, many women in the third world tended to put less powder in the mixture than was required (to make it go further), thus causing huge rises in infant mortality due to malnutrition. It was an evil affair, Nestle knew what was happening, but they just stepped up their advertising campaign and even had representatives who'd travel around advising young mothers to bottle-feed.
Anyway, back on topic - Petrochemical companies - another bunch of corporate crooks. Just boycotting petrol forecourts won't hurt them in the slightest as they're instrumental in so many industries that it'll merely be like a fly buzzing around an elephant - a mild annoyance at best. Their biggest market is probably in the production of plastics - used for pretty much everything these days. Has anyone else noticed how much useless plastic packaging everything we buy comes in nowadays? I don't see the point - when you buy something you generally take it out of the packaging and throw that packaging away, and the Council say they can't recycle half of the plastic used!!! What an utter waste of energy and resources.. tsk tsk!