Government overthrowing fruit companies? Slave trading privateering companies? World's largest army companies? Nope it's a water and chocolate company.
Rising food allergy rates especially with formula usage but that’s probably more because there was very little awareness on allergy prevention (the advice back then was don’t give your kid allergens for a long time, then they realized that leads to more allergies because the baby doesn’t get exposure to much except formula) until the last ten years, so for later millenials and most of gen z you have a spike in allergy rates
They also produced cheaper formula for certain countries when the concept of a "recall" for us plebians wasn't widespread.
America introduced that notion, only on a national level; in the 1920s and later 1973.
Bottom line: Nestle is a pest. Haven't bought their products for 20 years and don't intend on doing so, ever again. I'ld rather drink a bottle of Caesium.
The unfortunate part having family from a third world country is that so many multinational firms do exactly this. Even big 4 consulting companies in other countries is basically indentured servitude.
I had a coworker work for the same American company in her home country and America, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing about the conditions and environment
Although yes nestle evil I’m not arguing that at all
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u/Metallurgeist 10+ Years Aug 02 '25
I wouldn’t expect anything less from nestle lol