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	Breastfeeding.com - The Nestle Boycott
		After a brief hiatus the Nestle boycott was relaunched in 1988 and continues to this day.
		Nestlé, is the world's largest baby food company and increases it's profits by promoting artificial infant feeding in violation of the W.H.O. code that has been signed by the US and many other nations.
		Nestlé knows that once a bottle has become between a mother and her child breastfeeding is more likely to fail and the company has gained a customer.
	www.breastfeeding.com /advocacy/advocacy_boycott.html (400 words)

	Breast vs. Bottle: The Nestle Boycott
		The boycott called for a cessation of all activities that were detrimental to the practice of breast feeding, including aggressive advertisements, free samples, and wet nurses.
		By 1983, Nestle was being actively boycotted by the citizens of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, West Germany, and France (Chetley 54).
		The reason stated for the implementation of the boycott is that there were "activists in the United States who were concerned at the marketing practices of infant formula by the industry in the Developing World" (Nestle web page).
	it.stlawu.edu /~advertiz/andrew/nestle.htm (808 words)

	Nestle boycott continues
		Nestle is the sole advertiser of baby foods in the Indian edition of Parenting magazine and its Cerelac advertisements are found in pharmacies.
		While Nestle's biggest complaint has been over-regulation and has been actively undermining attempts to bring about strong baby food legislation in many countries, ironically it is calling for legislation of a different kind to be strictly enforced.
		Nestle wants its corporate brand - the nest - to be protected and entrenched in the law and strictly enforced by the authorities.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Boycotts/Nestleboycott_cont.html (766 words)

	The Green Life: Greenwash: Nestle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nestle is attempting to repair this reputation by attaching a well-respected label to their company: Fair Trade.
		Nestle claims that low prices for coffee is a simple result of coffee supply outpacing demand, and that “sometimes, there are just too many beans”, and farmers may not make a profit.
		Nestle claims it already gets 14% of its total coffee needs directly from growers, and that it chose to buy its fair trade beans from El Salvador and Ethiopia because they were two countries where farmers were "suffering".
	www.thegreenlife.org /greenwasherfebruary2006.html (1021 words)

	The Nestle Boycott - Lionra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nestlé still refuses to admit that free supplies are harmful, ending the practice only when forced to by official action.
		Nestlé claims to be 'committed to breastfeeding' but its over-riding priority is to make profits for its shareholders.
		Nestlé is responding to the boycott with clever public relations techniques whilst continuing to violate the Code.
	www.cmn.ie /cmnsitenew/training/sinead/boycott.htm (1327 words)

	Untitled Document
		Nestle, is a food and drink corporation Who supplies a huge chuck of the products sold to UK consumers' every day.
		Nestle spend vast sums on covert advertising to children, such as through the 'Kid's Club Network' where money given to schools is exchanged for direct marketing to impressionable young minds.
		Nestle Italy was also forced to withdraw 'Alsoy' infant formula after it was found to contain Genetically Modified Organisms despite Nestle's promise not to use GMOs in it.
	www.geocities.com /bristolresist/nestleoverview.htm (1012 words)

	Community Action: Nestle Campaign @ Calderdale-Online
		Nestle claims that its malpractice is a thing of the past and that it now abides by the Code*.
		Nestles "Charter", setting out its own policy, is a watered down and completely inadequate version of the Code* applying only to infant formula milk in selected 'developing' countries, rather than ALL countries and ALL breastmilk substitutes as required by the Code and Resolutions.
		The boycott continues to have an important impact on Nestle, in direct economic terms, in damage caused to its corporate image and management morale and in the resources the company spends trying to combat it.
	www.calderdale-online.org /html/community/nestle_camp.html (763 words)

	Nestlé in the McSpotlight
		Nestlé holds about 50% of the world's breast milk substitute market and is being boycotted for continued breaches of the 1981 WHO Code regulating the marketing of breast milk substitutes.
		Nestlé encourages bottle feeding primarily by either giving away free samples of baby milk to hospitals, or neglecting to collect payments.
		Nestlé implies that malnourished mothers, and mothers of twins and premature babies are unable to breastfeed, despite health organisations claims that there is no evidence to support this.
	www.mcspotlight.org /beyond/companies/nestle.html (1021 words)

	Multinational Monitor, April, 1984
		The basic demand of the boycott was to "halt sales promotion of infant formula in developing countries." This was to be a sticking point in the final negotiations, because the WHO Code called for application in both developed and underdeveloped countries to protect mothers and children from undue commercial pressure.
		Ultimately, the boycotters felt that to preserve the integrity of their campaign, they could not hold out for application of the code to developed countries and stuck to their original demand that Nestle follow the code in the Third World.
		He believes the key factors were: the pressure of the boycott; boycott organizers' public acknowledgement of Nestle's progress over time; and the willingness of Nestle to make the necessary changes to end the controversy.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1984/04/clarkson.html (2696 words)

	Nestle Involved in Dishonest Fair Trade Marketing Scandal
		Nestlé won a global internet poll for the world's 'least responsible company' coinciding with the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2005.
		Nestlé's 2005 coffee report (click here) states: "Nestlé recognises that Fair Trade is a useful way to raise consciousness about the coffee issue and for individual consumers to express their solidarity with a group of coffee farmers in the developing world.
		According to Nestlé's press release it is "working with over 200 smallholders in four Fairtrade certified co-operatives" in El Salvador and sourcing some coffee from a co-operative with an undisclosed number of farmers in Ethiopia.
	www.organicconsumers.org /fair-trade/nestle.cfm (1421 words)

	Nestle Boycott
		From 1974 to 1984, a boycott on the international company Nestle went ahead due to non-cooperation with the World Health Organisation, or WHO, on breast milk substitutes and their advertising.
		Nestle has been reported as defying these rules and putting their profit before the safety of babies.
		One of the main reasons for the boycott is that Nestle is redefining its market to not only include those who need a substitute, but those who dislike breastfeeding or would find a substitute more convenient.
	www.angelfire.com /rings/watchdog/html/nestle_boycott.html (341 words)

	Nestlé (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the State of Israel in recognition of those individuals and organizations that, through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy.
		Nestle has bought a controlling share in the Israeli firm Osem, allowing Nestle to sell its products in Israel, including Nescafe, Perrier, Carnation, Smarties and Kit Kat.
		Nestlé, which has already been subjected to criticism over its dealings with newborn mothers in the developing world and its promotion of its baby milk products, including Nido, is now the subject of further fury, with regards its trade with Israel.
	www.proislam.com /boycott_nestle.htm (406 words)

	Boycott
		The boycott was instrumental in the decision to draft an international code, and was acknowledged by James Grant, former Executive Director of UNICEF, as being one of the instigators for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.
		The Nestlé Boycott started in 1977 in Minneapolis, USA and had one basic demand: that the company halt all promotion of breastmilk substitutes to parents and health workers, including direct advertising to consumers, the distribution of free samples and the use of ‘milk nurses’; (company sales representatives dressed as nurses).
		Nestlé's CEO, Peter Brabeck, chairs the European Round Table which has special access to the European Union; Nestlé's Chair, Helmut Maucher, is president of the International Chamber of Commerce, which is attempting to push forward a free trade agenda at the World Trade Organisation.
	www.ibfan.org /english/resource/ibfo/issue1/boycott.html (704 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Swiss food giant Nestle has been added to the Arab League list of companies to be boycotted because of links with Israel, officials said Tuesday, but a source said the decision was likely to be ignored by most member states.
		The Damascus-based Arab League Central Boycott Office (CBO) has informed Nestle that the firm was added to the list during a meeting in Damascus in May "because it maintains a branch in Israel," according to Syrian representative Mohammad Ajami.
		Ajami, who said Nestle was given a one-year delay to "regulate its situation" by ceasing operations in Israel, confirmed to AFP that Syria had decided to comply with the CBO decision.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3272747,00.html (278 words)

	McSpotlight on the Baby Milk Industry
		Nestle holds about 50% of the world's breast milk substitute market and is being boycotted for continued breaches of the 1981 WHO Code regulating the marketing of breast milk substitutes.
		Nestle encourages bottle feeding primarily by either giving away free samples of baby milk to hospitals, or neglecting to collect payments.
		Nestle implies that malnourished mothers, and mothers of twins and premature babies are unable to breastfeed, despite health organisations claims that there is no evidence to support this.
	www.mcspotlight.org /beyond/nestle.html (1207 words)

	Food politics (was baby food + Nestle boycott)
		Total, Nestle and Siemens are among the few companies left in the country
		Nestlé and Wyeth, two of the World's largest producers of powdered baby milk, are currently breaking a World Health Organisation Code on the marketing of breast milk substitutes.
		Nestlé and Wyeth provide free milk to maternity hospitals in the Third World so that newborn babies are routinely bottle-fed.
	danny.oz.au /BFAG (439 words)

	solarider blog » Nestle boycott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The basic premise of the boycott is that Nestle promotes its powered baby milk products in developing nations to the detriment of mothers and babies by giving away free samples in hospitals and discouraging the promotion of breast feeding.
		Nestle, is the world’s largest baby food company and increases it’s profits by promoting artificial infant feeding in violation of the W.H.O. code that has been signed by the US and many other nations.
		Nestle knows that once a bottle has become between a mother and her child breastfeeding is more likely to fail and the company has gained a customer.
	solarider.org /blog/?p=695 (5141 words)

	Methodists criticised for opening way for investment in Nestlé - news from ekklesia
		Campaigners against the practices of the controversial company Nestlé have said that the reasoning behind the Methodist Church's decision to open the way for investment in the company is ill-judged and likely to harm rather than help the campaign to protect infant health.
		Nestlé is the target of a boycott in 20 countries because campaigners say it aggressively markets baby foods, breaking World Health Assembly marketing requirements and contributing to the death and suffering of infants around the world.
		Both Nestlé and Baby Milk Action took part in the consultation, offering their advice and response to the briefing paper and the committee is grateful for their contributions.
	www.ekklesia.co.uk /content/news_syndication/article_051125nestle.shtml (1015 words)

	I didn't know this! Body Shop bought out by (L'Oreal/Nestle) \| Hip Mama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nestlé issues what is to be the first of many policy statements which do little to address the genuine concerns of its critics.
		Nestlé Chief Executive, Peter Brabeck-Letmathé, promises UK television programme that labels will be in the appropriate language for the country where they are sold by March 2000 - 19 years after this was made a requirement in the Code - but fails to deliver.
		Nestlé rejects a four-point plan aimed at saving infant lives and ultimately ending the boycott as it refuses to accept the Code and Resolutions are minimum requirements and apply to all countries - though these points have been made by UNICEF in writing to Nestlé in the past.
	www.hipmama.com /node/23728 (4973 words)

	Boycott City - View Member's Boycotts
		No boycotts have been created by this user.
		nestle has manged to change the way an entire species feeds its young.
		To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion.
	boycottcity.org /author/index.php?userId=262 (392 words)

	Infant Formula: Nestle Boycott
		The controversial Nestlé boycott began as a result of the discovery that in many developing nations infants were malnourished or dying because their mothers could not properly use commercial infant formulas.
		Nonetheless, the pressure of the boycotters' continued witness and the fear that their companies might be targeted for a boycott if Nestlé were to satisfy the boycotters' concerns surely played a role in moving them to a new policies.
		Further Nestlé efforts to comply will probably not result in greater protection of infants as competing companies will quickly fill the gaps, and may place the Nestlé company at such a competitive disadvantage that they will not be able to resist returning to such practices.
	www.brethren.org /genbd/GBResolutions/83NestleBoycott.html (2166 words)

	Philippine Workers Strike Nestlé
		I had heard of the boycott before but always assumed that it was probably some long-standing consumer boycott organized in the US that had little relevancy to the lives of the Third World workers it was supposed to help.
		Luis, a Nestle worker who was attacked by the SWAT team during the last blockade and suffered broken ribs, told me that many internationalists have come to visit the camp.
		Early the next morning, six Nestle strikers and I climbed in a jeepney, the local form of transport, to meet one of three contingents from across the country participating in the Lakbyan, a week long national march and rally to Manila.
	www.ibiblio.org /prism/sep98/philippines.html (1974 words)

	Nestles Boycott, and Baby Milk food Substitutes
		Nestle has been reported as challenging their need to comply with these rules, defying them, and allegedly putting their own profit before the safety of babies.
		The problem is that Nestle seems to be redefining its potential customers, not just those who need the milk substitute, but those who may find it more convenient.
		Nestle is reported to have indulged in violations of the Code in Pakistan, by a former employee.
	shell.ihug.co.nz /~stu/milk.htm (1344 words)

	Green Left - Feminist column: … and ain't i a woman?: Nestle boycott is back
		Nestle's marketing pitch bombarded women with radio jingles, giant billboards showing happy babies clutching tins of formula and saleswomen in nurses' uniforms (known as ``milk nurses''), giving the impression of medical endorsement as they distributed free samples.
		In 1984, after years of hedging and legal suits, the Nestle company signed an agreement with the International Nestle Boycott Committee, in which it promised to abide by a UN code regulating milk formula marketing practices.
		By 1988, it was clear that Nestle had broken the spirit of the UN code, if not the letter.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1992/53/3368 (611 words)

	Multinational Monitor, September 1982
		Nestle's unnoticed thrust on campus represents part of an all-out attempt by the company to beat its critics with a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign.
		Nestle has been trying hard to polish its image and rid itself of the boycott.
		Nestle's "tactics have been to fragment" the boycott, says Jonathan Churchill, a New York lawyer who acts as the chief negotiator for the International Nestle Boycott Committee.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1982/09/bartimole.html (1627 words)

	Baby Milk Action - The Nestlé Boycott
		Nestlé is targeted with the boycott because monitoring conducted by the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) finds it to be responsible for more violations of the World Health Assembly marketing requirements for baby foods than any other company (see the codewatch section for profiles of the different companies to target their malpractice).
		See the history of the campaign to information on how efforts to introduce independently monitored and enforced legislation are paying off and how the boycott was once called off because Nestlé promised to change its policies and practices, but broke its word so the boycott was re-launched.
		In the past Nestlé refused to even speak if we were present in the room, but thanks to pressure from the boycott has backed down from this position.
	www.babymilkaction.org /pages/boycott.html (1101 words)

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