Nestlé to become ethical!

8.00.00am GMT Tue 23rd Nov 2004

I was astonished to read a report that Nestlé, and Kraft Foods, are to launch ethically aware brands of coffee in 2005. Astonished as Nestlé is one of the least ethical companies in the world. Nestlé stands is subject to consumer boycotts in twenty countries due to its aggressive marketing of it's baby milk powder.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 1.5 million infants die around the world every year because they are not breastfed. Where water is unsafe a bottle-fed child is up to 25 times more likely to die as a result of diarrhoea than a breastfed child.

Nestlé is the target of a boycott in twenty countries because of its unethical and irresponsible marketing of breastmilk substitutes. The Nestlé boycott is the most popular consumer boycott in the UK. Nestlé controls about 40% of the worldwide baby milk market. It is singled out for boycott action because it is the largest single source of violations of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent.

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To find out more about the Nestlé boycott visit the Baby Milk Action website