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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.activism.d,aus.general
- Subject: Re: Why you shouldn't buy Nestle
- Date: 12 Oct 1992 23:44:31 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
- Lines: 42
- Message-ID: <Jym.12Oct1992.1644@naughty-peahen.org>
- References: <1992Sep25.132601.11295@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- <Gary.Woodman.719.717641452@anu.edu.au>
- <1992Sep28.053336.9290@cs.su.oz.au>
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- In-reply-to: yar@cs.su.oz.au's message of 28 Sep 92 05:33:36 GMT
-
- > Having just recently raised a child in this country . . .
-
- =^= Stop right there. "In this country" changes everything.
- Everything.
-
- =^= We're talking about people who don't have access to medical
- information, don't have a nearby supermarket to select different
- brands from (as if that were even the issue), and don't have a
- big industrialized dairy industry to keep the price of (cow)
- milk affordable.
-
- =^= Nestle's strategy has been to dress up their employees in
- the white medical garb of health workers, and actually have
- them denigrate breast-feeding (by portraying it as a bestial
- practice) and promoting formula-feeding as a modern medical
- alternative.
-
- =^= New mothers are given just enough free sample of formula
- so that if they use it to replace (rather than supplant) their
- own milk, their own milk will dry up. And some of those mothers
- make that choice, because Nestle's "clinicians" tell them it's
- the right choice.
-
- > As always, the problem is a lot harder to deal when faced
- > with reality.
-
- =^= I suggest that *you* face reality. Really, it doesn't
- take rocket science to realize that your premises are totally
- inapplicable to these people in developing nations!
-
- > The solution for some seems to be to blame the evil large
- > multi-national, and if that make you feel good, then go
- > ahead . . .
-
- =^= That's just a vacuous flame. How about dealing with the
- actual substance (i.e., what a given multi-national is doing)
- instead of whining about some surface appearance?
- <_Jym_>
- __
- I don't know if she likes this, but in a way I treat her as a staff
- person.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle, referring to Marilyn.
-