Nestlé: The Most Evil Business in the World

The Dark Side of Baby Formula

In this section, we learn about the inventor of baby formula and how they wanted to expand their business by selling to every mother. However, they faced steep competition from natural breast milk, which is vastly superior in nutritional value.

Expanding the Business

• The inventor of baby formula wanted to expand their business beyond just selling to moms who can't breastfeed.

• They needed a way to sell to every mother and increase their customer base by 20 to 100 times.

• However, natural breast milk is vastly superior in nutritional value compared to formula milk.

• To convince the world that formula milk is better than breast milk, propaganda was used.

Propaganda Campaign

• The goal was to get doctors and nurses to suggest formula as an alternative to breast milk.

• Nestle's influencer campaign paid doctors and nurses to promote their formula over breast milk.

• In Asia and Africa, saleswomen dressed up like nurses handed out free samples and medical advice.

• These free samples were big enough that by the time they ran out, mothers would have stopped making breast milk naturally.

Consequences

• Babies who are fed formula in unhygienic conditions are between 6 to 25 times more likely to die of diarrhea and 4 times more likely to die from pneumonia compared with breastfed babies.

• Despite this, companies like Nestle continue with their propaganda campaigns.

Nestle's Unethical Business Practices

This section discusses Nestle's unethical business practices in relation to their baby formula milk.

Baby Formula Milk

• Executives were brought before the US Senate to explain why babies were dying or getting sick because of their formula milk.

• Nestle has no corporate responsibility to find out the extent of the use of their product in developing parts of the world.

• Millions of people started boycotting Nestle products and stricter laws were put in place, but there are still reports of Nestle paying doctors to promote their products, giving out free samples, and advertising in hospitals.

Water Business

• The water business can be very lucrative if done right.

• In Pakistan, it was revealed that Nestle was diverting clean drinking water away from villages and towns and then packaging it in their factories. They would then resell that water back to the same people they took it from.

• The chairman of Nestle supports everyone having access to clean safe water, but this is contradicted by their actions.

Chocolate Blindfold Test

• A man claims he can pick his favorite chocolate blindfolded and identifies it as Nestle's chocolate.

Nestle's Shady Business Practices

This section discusses Nestle's unethical business practices, including the use of child labor in their cocoa supply chain.

Child Labor in Cocoa Supply Chain

• Nestle buys coca beans from farms that use forced child labor to harvest the beans.

• In 2000, a report came out that Nestle, Cadbury, and Mars were all guilty of buying blood coca and knew about it all along.

• Nestle promised to free its chocolate candy from slave labor by 2005 but missed that deadline and all deadlines after that.

• No company sourcing coca from the Ivory Coast can guarantee that it doesn't happen.

Environmentalism as a Cover-Up

• When trends changed from being morally correct to being environmentally correct, Nestle switched to an environmentally friendly label that takes less effort, money, and resources and diverts attention away from their shady supply chain.

The Ethiopian Water Crisis

This section discusses how Nestle contributed to the Ethiopian water crisis by demanding payment for a debt owed by the government during one of the worst famines in history.

Demanding Payment During Famine

• In 1986, Nestle bought a German company based in Ethiopia that had been nationalized in the '70s. The Ethiopian government owed Nestle money and offered $1.5 million as compensation.

• By 2002, due to a new exchange rate, this amount had become $6 million. Nestle demanded payment even while millions of people were starving in Ethiopia.

• Nestle eventually backed down due to mounting pressure of boycotts, but the damage to their reputation had been done.

Conclusion

This section provides an overview of Nestle's current status as a company and its controversial tactics.

Current Status

• Nestle is the biggest food company in the world, operating in 190 countries, employing almost 300,000 people, and has 376 factories worldwide.

• Even Nestle has admitted that 60% of its products aren't healthy.

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