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This week is Boycott Nestlé Week.  For years Nestlé have been pretending that they don’t put profits before people despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary supplied by the World Health Organisation, Baby Milk Action and many other organisations.

Nestlé themselves have just started their own small boycott. the snippet below is from ethicalperformance.com:

Nestlé has vowed to stop buying milk from a farm owned by the wife of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe. The Switzerland-based multinational, which recently admitted sourcing milk from Grace Mugabe’s Gushungo Dairy Estate, announced it would now only buy from the Dairy Board of Zimbabwe. Human rights activists had called for a boycott of Nestlé products because the farm was seized from its white owner under Mugabe’s controversial land reforms.

Coincidental timing? I think not. Nestlé may be huge but they are still susceptible to pressure. Their decision to boycott Mugabe milk is welcome but we must never forget the impact of their unprincipled policies on poor mothers and babies across the world.

The message still has to be Boycott Nestlé.

Boycott Nestlé – and other action to protect infant health: Nestlé-Free Week 26 October – 1 November.