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Irresponsible Practices of the Nestle Company

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Nestle is one of the largest companies in the world. Henri Nestle, who was a German pharmacist, founded it in 1867. He introduced his Farine lactee, which was a drink made to help with medical illnesses. Henri created it by mixing cow’s milk, wheat flour, and sugar in order to save a neighbor’s child. Since then, the company has expanded internationally and become one of the worlds largest cocoa producers. However, Nestle does not hold the highest ethics and values that it should for general humanitarian reasons. Expectations are high for such a big corporation like Nestle, but Nestle has done a very poor job at ethically producing any of its ingredients that make the company its millions. Since 1977 Nestle has been the center of an international boycott because of their irresponsible marketing strategies. Nestle mostly targets its advertisements towards pregnant women, mothers of newborns and young children, and health workers in order to increase its sales. Its advertisements promote baby formulas by sending out the wrong messages about breast-feeding, which can be harmful to the new borns. It has been advertising their baby formulas in a way to convince the parents that breast-feeding could be harmful to the babies, when in reality there is a higher chance of babies becoming sick by eating the formulas Nestle produces. According to The World Health Organization, “Globally, breastfeeding has the potential to prevent about 800,000 deaths among children under five each year if all children 0-23 months were optimally breastfed.” This means that 11.6% of children under the age of five could be saved by breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is something natural and the baby needs the natural milk in order to stay healthy instead of feeding them other kinds of substitutes that companies like Nestle provides. There is nothing wrong with feeding the newborn other kinds of food in order to get the child used to the taste but that is not the

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