Comments on: Nestle: Chocolate Chips or Advocate of Bottle Feeding?

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Gag Me Product of the Week: Chocolate Formula — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:12:23 +0000

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tajweed quran online — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:24:55 +0000

Swiss food multinational Nestlé has ordered the recall of baby milk products from five European countries due to ink contamination from the packaging.

The recalls in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Greece follow the confiscation of 30 million litres of milk by the Italian authorities. Tetra Pak in Holland confirmed it had produced the faulty packaging.

what do they say about this

By: Mike Brady

Mike Brady — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:24:43 +0000

I became aware of this event due to the amount of traffic coming to Baby Milk Action sites from links people were posting on Twitter.

Nestlé has a history of all expenses paid trips for people it thinks can put its message across on controversial issues as if they are independent. In one such example Nestle continues to distribute an article that arose – but without the substantial right to reply given to Baby Milk Action by the publication due to the many factual errors in the article. The ‘independent’ author now has her training business funded by Nestlé and lobbies people to drop their support for the boycott. See:
http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2009/09/nestle-family-twitters.html

When Nestlé eventually came online at this blogger event to say it would answer questions, I posted several and offered to take part in a Tweet debate with Nestlé. None were answered and Nestlé currently refuses to speak in public if Baby Milk Action is present, having lost a series of debates between 2001 – 2004.

It is great to see how much attention has been given to Nestlé malpractice as a result of Nestlé’s latest PR effort. The forthcoming Nestlé-Free Week, 26 October – 1 November, designed to give the boycott a boost has received publicity. And I hope people are contacting Nestlé calling for it to make changes to its policies and practices.

One particular concern we are campaigning on at present is new formula labels Nestlé has rolled out around the world that claim its formula ‘protects’. An example from Malawi, Africa, one of the world’s poorest countries with an under-5 mortality rate of 140 per 1,000 live births is given on my blog about this event along with answers to some of the other questions raised on Twitter and elsewhere:
http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2009/10/twitter-answers.html

By: Gina

Gina — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:02:41 +0000

I’m glad to see bloggers not invited to the Nestle party covering this. I agree that the event was clearly designed as a publicity event – not a true “town hall” type conversation. They’re preaching to the choir when they really need to first, get their business in order and clean things up, and then reach out to those who will ask the tough questions. This was completely one sided with challenging questions ignored. This wasn’t a social media event – they held a press conference without the media.

By: Annie

Annie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:46:11 +0000

@Jennifer James:

There is a Jenny Craig ad where? On the side bar of this blog? There is also a Nestle one right now.

Nestle Baby
More nutritious options with Nestlé Iron Fortified and Easier to Digest
Nestle-Baby.ca

That is the problem with Google Ads (and many other ad networks). You can control what shows up and a lot of it is keyword based. The ones that piss me off the most are the ones that say “Breastfeeding Support”, but you click on it and get taken to a formula company.

By: Annie

Annie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:41:38 +0000

@pat: I didn’t make up the Blog with Integrity thing – more info on it here:
http://www.blogwithintegrity.com/

With regards to biased posters posing as regular people, I have had that a few times in the comments on my blog. Some of them are stupid enough to do it from either (a) their work computer (duh…I can see/look up the IP address) or (b) to give their real name and/or work e-mail.

By: pat

pat — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:24:31 +0000

Blogging with integrity! I love it. The thing is, one never knows who is behind the posts, they can be anyone!

I once was on a parent chat room where one parent disparaged a baby food company. A “poster” rushed in to defend. Then there was a post in defence of a rival company….the whole thread was hijacked by these two people….as it turned out both employees of rival baby food companies, posing as ordinary concerned mothers.

By: Annie

Annie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:46:09 +0000

Thanks for posting this Jessica. To clarify, Nestle did invite bloggers who are not exactly supporters. Most of them smartly declined. They realized that a company that has been spouting doublespeak for more than 30 years was not going to suddenly start listening and telling the truth. They realized that their reputations could be compromised. The decided that they were not willing to swap their morals for a trip to LA.

To be fair to those who attended, many of them truly did believe they could get Nestle to listen (and some still think they did). Some had no clue about this at all before they accepted the invitation, and some acted with grace and dignity after hearing that news, while others didn’t.

It is an interesting case study and learning opportunity indeed, both for corporations and for bloggers. For me, not attending an event like this and tweeting all the way through about how wondeful Nestle and its products are is part of my vow to Blog with Integrity. I guess others interpret it differently and/or have different values than I do.

By: Jennifer James

Jennifer James — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:08:11 +0000

At first glance you might think it’s all about the processed food and chocolate chips, but Nestlé also owns 51% of L’Oréal, which means they are also part owners of Maybelline, Lancome, Garnier, Biotherm, Giorgio Armani Parfumes and the list goes on. The also own Jenny Craig (there’s a Jenny Craig ad on the sidebar of the blog) and several pet food brands.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:59:03 +0000

There are so many things that wrong with the Nestle Family trip is hard to know where to begin. Here are some of the things I have noted.
1. Nestle was sure to integrate the power of Twitter this weekend, although some said that at first Nestle found it to be a silly thing…which the more I think of it the more it doesn’t make sense- considering they devoted half the site page to participants tweets.

2. The fact that Nestle themselves did not create their own Twitter page till the shit hit the fan, then stopped tweeting Friday at five leaving their supporters high and dry.
These two points lead me to believe Nestle is not a cooperation that values family or the mom opinion.
Although I have never talked to you Jessica I was kinda looking forward to hearing your opinion- did not disappoint…thanks