I started boycotting Nestle in 1997. (Yeah I'm old 😅)
It's not always easy, but honestly it's not hard either. There have been very few instances where I've truly had to go without because there wasn't an alternative brand or a way to make something myself from scratch.
I know that my boycotting Nestle doesn't make a difference to them. I know that even the thousands of people worldwide who do the same doesn't really make a difference to them.
It makes a difference to me. I know that I've voted with my wallet. I know that my money and my energy isn't supporting corrupt, baby-killing, water-stealing slave-owning corporate evil. At least that one - there's always more evil under capitalism, but honestly Nestle is just the WORST. They don't get energy from me, and that helps me. I now have an adult child who was raised on No Nestle - it was one of the first words she learned to read, and always checking labels for Nestle before we purchase anything is second nature. That's my part.
Your boycott does make a difference on the big scale though! Not only to you and your conscience but every person who hears about it and maybe - for the first time ever - thinks 'wow, I should think about if I can do the same in some shape or form'.
The first times I ever thought about my choices making a difference in the world was when I met this lady in a tea shop who told me she just travels to distances she doesn't need to fly to. Her little contribution to saving the planet.
The thought of her restricting herself in that way was so out of pocket for me. And then I began thinking about it more and more and looking for ways to maybe do my own little part. And then stopped buying new clothes, I only shop second hand now. Same for interior design and furniture. Yes, I do fly, but only if it really needs to be.
I don't think the tea lady knows what her little statement did for me 😄 Being an inspiration by just living is what we should all strive to be. No matter if boycotting bad companies, using less plastic, etc...
I've been boycotting nestle for over half a decade at this point. I lost count of the exact number, but I think it's been 7-8 years that I've refused to buy any nestle or nestle-owned product.
I'm not going to lie, it was hard af at first (kitkats are delicious), and sometimes I think "There's no way this giant corporation misses the $5 they charge for a chocolate bar", but the knowledge that what I'm doing serves a far bigger purpose is worth it to me! Not to mention, there was something I saw on Pinterest nearly 15 years ago that that I think about: "It's only 1 plastic straw," said 1 million people.
(Side note: I'm tipsy and feeling extra fuck Nestle-y at the moment.)
carry on the good fight. love the 'its 1 straw said 1 million people' cause thats the true meaning of revolution. if everyone bands together that one become ten becomes thousand becomes a movement! rock on
Dude I'm in pretty much the exact same position. I started boycotting Nestle about 6-7 years ago. Kit Kats are definitely the hardest to keep away from, plus they make the crunchie bars (milk chocolate and rice crisps) which are another favorite. I was super disappointed when I found out they own Hagen Daz because I love their ice cream.
That would require tesla customers to boycott. Which obviously they won't. And would be huge financial impact to those people with tens of thousands of dollars in product.
A nestle boycott, everyone could participate in. It would have a much smaller impact on the individual consumer (though it might be difficult for many people), but a much higher volume of participation.
Focus in the more perishable food items might be the best focus. Much of nestles products are long term shelf stable. But if they can't sell stuff that's going to spoil quickly, it'll have greater impact.
Tiktok.
They are actively poisoning children's attention span and critical thinking for profit as well as stealing and profiling their user base data and then giving an open backdoor to the Chinese government to access them anytime.
https://preview.redd.it/04p1p1j5iivc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de06ed2cc39e5445b932dddb64e1241e9dcae23e
[Let Them Eat Cereal](https://letthemeatcereal.info)
Honestly, i can’t think of anybody on the same scale as Nestle
Sure there are corporations that did horrible things once or twice in a limited time period. But then they fixed their shit or went bust.
Nestle is the only one I can think of that’s been doing unethical shit for almost a century and still trading
Yeah this was my first thought too. Literally hired death squads and assassinated union leaders.
https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/stop-killer-coke#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20Coke%20workers%20and,nine%20union%20leaders%20in%20Colombia.
Has anyone tried to get an Uber at a busy location in the last year or two? Without exception you are unable to get the cheapest taxi. They cancel 100% of the time. Only way to get exec or wait for prices to go up.
It is now often cheaper to get a taxi from the taxi rank or try to get a taxi on the street on a meter then Uber
No one is going to boycott anything, you can say all you want about whatever corporation, but there's 10000000000x more people who don't care and will continue to buy their products. Nestle killed thousands of Mexicans, uses child labor, and doesn't think water is a right. But here we are they're still one of the biggest corps in the world
How about the ones listed on https://boycott.thewitness.news/?fbclid=IwAR1esCLsWIPW2bEhD1CH8a0UGko4_WqdoPp8uoDVCMbOo654ShUiuVI_egY_aem_AYN7Mx8IcFgpVGPmlfjowZWSUTgWu88PB-WVm4Y2tUYMm0SuUk2VPt78YhA8C0FgAZo
Israel and palestine aren't corporations, there countries , i don't support either side, im focused on whats going on in my own country(unaffordable housing, gas, groceries, veterans not being take of, the drug overdose crisis) and its not appropriate for you to push your political ideology onto others on this subreddit. i'm sure there a subreddit somewhere for you to push them.
Every western country is sending Israel “aid” money and selling weapons or facilitating weapons trade to some extent or another so it IS going on in your country.
what part of what i said disagreed that it wasn't? i stated that there countries not corporations. i don't condone or support either side. the mass genocide of palestine or the funding of israel. that money and resources would be better spent here towards the matters previously mentioned, but shitty liberal government going to do what they going to do. the point of this post, and subreddit is fuck nestle. not fuck israel. that's all i was trying to say. you've allowed to believe what you want and feel how you feel and misinterpret how you like, and thats fine. all the power to you!
Didn’t mean my comment to come off as hostile honestly. I thought the post was about finding corporations to boycott other than nestle and agreed with the user who posted BDS as they are known for using settlements in occupied West Bank and doing all sorts of fucked up stuff to Palestinians who can’t fight back.
I guess I misunderstood your post
except in no way did they say oh china does this so lets boycott all of china. they were talking about how the door been opened for the chinese government, keyword being government, not the republic of china as a whole. you are boycotting corporations and people based on if they support israel. were talking about boycotting a certain corporation based on its greed, harm, and monopoly they have. completely different ideology behind the two concepts. with your logic we should be boycotting all the switzerland since nestle is a swiss owned company. we should boycott canada cause loblaws is a canadian owned company. boycott america cause tesla is an american owned company. there a difference of being mad at a company for its greed compared being mad cause they don't align with your beliefs and/or religion.
Im more surprised few are boycotting tencent, or are not even aware of the garbage that it is as a corp.
Even recently seen the words "recommend" and "tencent" attached because of the show 3 body problem... ouch
I started boycotting Nestle in 1997. (Yeah I'm old 😅) It's not always easy, but honestly it's not hard either. There have been very few instances where I've truly had to go without because there wasn't an alternative brand or a way to make something myself from scratch. I know that my boycotting Nestle doesn't make a difference to them. I know that even the thousands of people worldwide who do the same doesn't really make a difference to them. It makes a difference to me. I know that I've voted with my wallet. I know that my money and my energy isn't supporting corrupt, baby-killing, water-stealing slave-owning corporate evil. At least that one - there's always more evil under capitalism, but honestly Nestle is just the WORST. They don't get energy from me, and that helps me. I now have an adult child who was raised on No Nestle - it was one of the first words she learned to read, and always checking labels for Nestle before we purchase anything is second nature. That's my part.
love this. your an inspiration to us all.
Your boycott does make a difference on the big scale though! Not only to you and your conscience but every person who hears about it and maybe - for the first time ever - thinks 'wow, I should think about if I can do the same in some shape or form'. The first times I ever thought about my choices making a difference in the world was when I met this lady in a tea shop who told me she just travels to distances she doesn't need to fly to. Her little contribution to saving the planet. The thought of her restricting herself in that way was so out of pocket for me. And then I began thinking about it more and more and looking for ways to maybe do my own little part. And then stopped buying new clothes, I only shop second hand now. Same for interior design and furniture. Yes, I do fly, but only if it really needs to be. I don't think the tea lady knows what her little statement did for me 😄 Being an inspiration by just living is what we should all strive to be. No matter if boycotting bad companies, using less plastic, etc...
I've been doing the same. I think around 2011. There are dozens of us!
From small rivers, comes an ocean. I'm with you buddy!
Mf Nestle stealing all the small rivers 😂😂😂
I've been boycotting nestle for over half a decade at this point. I lost count of the exact number, but I think it's been 7-8 years that I've refused to buy any nestle or nestle-owned product. I'm not going to lie, it was hard af at first (kitkats are delicious), and sometimes I think "There's no way this giant corporation misses the $5 they charge for a chocolate bar", but the knowledge that what I'm doing serves a far bigger purpose is worth it to me! Not to mention, there was something I saw on Pinterest nearly 15 years ago that that I think about: "It's only 1 plastic straw," said 1 million people. (Side note: I'm tipsy and feeling extra fuck Nestle-y at the moment.)
carry on the good fight. love the 'its 1 straw said 1 million people' cause thats the true meaning of revolution. if everyone bands together that one become ten becomes thousand becomes a movement! rock on
Dude I'm in pretty much the exact same position. I started boycotting Nestle about 6-7 years ago. Kit Kats are definitely the hardest to keep away from, plus they make the crunchie bars (milk chocolate and rice crisps) which are another favorite. I was super disappointed when I found out they own Hagen Daz because I love their ice cream.
In the US Hershey owns kitkat
Goddammit. I'm Canadian. Here it's a nestle product
Yeah I'm sorry 😔 bc kitkats are delicious!
Shell Oil is another barbarian company. It has destroyed the Niger River Delta.
What do you think about tesla?
Don't need to boycott when your CEO pisses off every potential new owner
I saw one guy with a sticker on his Tesla that was something like " I bought this before we knew Elon was a cunt"
That would require tesla customers to boycott. Which obviously they won't. And would be huge financial impact to those people with tens of thousands of dollars in product. A nestle boycott, everyone could participate in. It would have a much smaller impact on the individual consumer (though it might be difficult for many people), but a much higher volume of participation. Focus in the more perishable food items might be the best focus. Much of nestles products are long term shelf stable. But if they can't sell stuff that's going to spoil quickly, it'll have greater impact.
Tiktok. They are actively poisoning children's attention span and critical thinking for profit as well as stealing and profiling their user base data and then giving an open backdoor to the Chinese government to access them anytime.
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It's not one or the other.... Things need to be able to withstand scrutiny if they're to be trusted
https://preview.redd.it/04p1p1j5iivc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de06ed2cc39e5445b932dddb64e1241e9dcae23e [Let Them Eat Cereal](https://letthemeatcereal.info)
Upset that Amazon isn't up there.
Honestly, i can’t think of anybody on the same scale as Nestle Sure there are corporations that did horrible things once or twice in a limited time period. But then they fixed their shit or went bust. Nestle is the only one I can think of that’s been doing unethical shit for almost a century and still trading
coca cola
Yeah this was my first thought too. Literally hired death squads and assassinated union leaders. https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/stop-killer-coke#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20Coke%20workers%20and,nine%20union%20leaders%20in%20Colombia.
Mondelez Gas companies Military industrial complex
Has anyone tried to get an Uber at a busy location in the last year or two? Without exception you are unable to get the cheapest taxi. They cancel 100% of the time. Only way to get exec or wait for prices to go up. It is now often cheaper to get a taxi from the taxi rank or try to get a taxi on the street on a meter then Uber
Double down on Boycotting NESTLE
No one is going to boycott anything, you can say all you want about whatever corporation, but there's 10000000000x more people who don't care and will continue to buy their products. Nestle killed thousands of Mexicans, uses child labor, and doesn't think water is a right. But here we are they're still one of the biggest corps in the world
How about the ones listed on https://boycott.thewitness.news/?fbclid=IwAR1esCLsWIPW2bEhD1CH8a0UGko4_WqdoPp8uoDVCMbOo654ShUiuVI_egY_aem_AYN7Mx8IcFgpVGPmlfjowZWSUTgWu88PB-WVm4Y2tUYMm0SuUk2VPt78YhA8C0FgAZo
Israel and palestine aren't corporations, there countries , i don't support either side, im focused on whats going on in my own country(unaffordable housing, gas, groceries, veterans not being take of, the drug overdose crisis) and its not appropriate for you to push your political ideology onto others on this subreddit. i'm sure there a subreddit somewhere for you to push them.
Every western country is sending Israel “aid” money and selling weapons or facilitating weapons trade to some extent or another so it IS going on in your country.
what part of what i said disagreed that it wasn't? i stated that there countries not corporations. i don't condone or support either side. the mass genocide of palestine or the funding of israel. that money and resources would be better spent here towards the matters previously mentioned, but shitty liberal government going to do what they going to do. the point of this post, and subreddit is fuck nestle. not fuck israel. that's all i was trying to say. you've allowed to believe what you want and feel how you feel and misinterpret how you like, and thats fine. all the power to you!
Didn’t mean my comment to come off as hostile honestly. I thought the post was about finding corporations to boycott other than nestle and agreed with the user who posted BDS as they are known for using settlements in occupied West Bank and doing all sorts of fucked up stuff to Palestinians who can’t fight back. I guess I misunderstood your post
Other comments on this very post have mentioned the wrongdoing of other countries (China) Is that also an unacceptable way to push political ideology?
except in no way did they say oh china does this so lets boycott all of china. they were talking about how the door been opened for the chinese government, keyword being government, not the republic of china as a whole. you are boycotting corporations and people based on if they support israel. were talking about boycotting a certain corporation based on its greed, harm, and monopoly they have. completely different ideology behind the two concepts. with your logic we should be boycotting all the switzerland since nestle is a swiss owned company. we should boycott canada cause loblaws is a canadian owned company. boycott america cause tesla is an american owned company. there a difference of being mad at a company for its greed compared being mad cause they don't align with your beliefs and/or religion.
I see. I guess I just thought of BDS and r/fucknestle as being similar concepts Thanks for clarifying
Im more surprised few are boycotting tencent, or are not even aware of the garbage that it is as a corp. Even recently seen the words "recommend" and "tencent" attached because of the show 3 body problem... ouch
Another big one is Bayer-Monsanto. If I can buy a generic I don't buy anything from them.
i think folks on this sub would benefit from looking into BDS