Each day brings more and more appalling stories of the power of these global corporations. It appears that even our politicians are unable to rein them in.
I'm with you Gill57. It's quite shocking what a hold on everyday products they have. (Goes for the other consumer global giants too). I guess we just try to buy local as far as possible, and ethical as far as possible too. It takes effort, but hopefully in time it will have a significant impact. Absent I'm intrigued to know what you had written
I have always tried to avoid Nestle products since NCT days when they had a campaign to highlight the scandal of Nestle promoting powdered baby food in countries with unsanitary and unreliable clean water supply. But, I didnt realise that they owned quite so many brands until I opened the link above, will make me rethink my shopping list.
I've been boycotting their products for over many years and would recommend Faye's link to you all as they own far more products than you may realise. The only way to influence them is to spread the word and affect their bottom line.
I was going to post my thoughts but have deleted what I have written on the grounds that it would probably have to deleted by GNHQ because of the risk of slander or libel proceedings.
"In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy. ... Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world."