Monday, December 17, 2007
Childrens author Sean Taylor has refused money from winning the Nestle Childrens Book Prize 2007, because of their marketing practices.
Read the article here http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003685452
Why is there a boycott against Nestle? Because in order to sell more of its infant formula in third world countries, Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. The free samples lasted long enough for the mother's breast milk to dry up from lack of use. Then mothers would be forced to purchase the formula but, being poor, they would often mix the formula with unsanitary water or 'stretch' the amount of formula by diluting it with more water than recommended. The result was that babies starved all over the Third World while Nestle made huge profits from this predatory marketing strategy.This was in the 70's and this is when the boycott begain. Nestle is still the biggest violator of the WHO code.
For more information on the boycott against Nestle, read here http://www.babymilkaction.org/resources/boycott/nestlefree.html
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