Re: Why you shouldn't buy Nestle

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From: Alan S. Mazer
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 15:31

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In article <1992Sep25.132601.11295@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> daniel@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Bowen) writes:
>Nestle, the world's largest producer of powdered baby milk, is currently
>breaking a World Health Organisation Code on the marketing of baby milk.
>
>1. Nestle provides free milk to maternity hospitals in the Third World
>so that newborn babies are routinely bottle-fed.

Let's stop right here.  Unless Nestle is forcing hospitals to bottle feed
infants the problem isn't with Nestle, it's with the hospital.  Sure Nestle
may be trying to make a buck, but given that people in the Third World
can't afford to buy the milk after they have the child (which you observed),
seems like Nestle is basically giving away free milk without much hope of
getting anything out of it.  Sounds like a good deed to me.
-- 
 
-- Alan                        # Mountain Dew and doughnuts...
   ..!ames!elroy!alan          # because breakfast is the most important meal
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