I am interested by your use of the word "child murderers".
Those babies did not die because of Nestle. They died because their water was polluted. Breast milk or formula - the essense of it still comes from the same rivers that kill thousands of people daily ANYWAY. If anything, by giving them formula, they were providing some of the nutrients and proteins that would not have occured naturally in the mothers because of ill health. Breastfeeding, in this case, was probably far more fatal.
Also, as the anonymous poster mentioned, this was THIRTY YEARS ago. If my information is correct (and I believe it is, since my mother worked for nestle during this period), Nestle apologised for the damage that was caused, and attempted to amend things. Most "Evil" corporations would not have done that. One may not want to forgive and forget, but to use an earlier point, are there not many Nazi's who are *truly* sorry for what they have done? It's a very comendable attitude. At least they admitted to fucking up.
As a final note, Nestle are a company like any other - the survive only by having people buy their products. If they had been deliberately killing small children, they would have been killing the next generation who would have bought their products.
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Date: 2002-09-11 02:00 am (UTC)Those babies did not die because of Nestle. They died because their water was polluted. Breast milk or formula - the essense of it still comes from the same rivers that kill thousands of people daily ANYWAY. If anything, by giving them formula, they were providing some of the nutrients and proteins that would not have occured naturally in the mothers because of ill health. Breastfeeding, in this case, was probably far more fatal.
Also, as the anonymous poster mentioned, this was THIRTY YEARS ago. If my information is correct (and I believe it is, since my mother worked for nestle during this period), Nestle apologised for the damage that was caused, and attempted to amend things. Most "Evil" corporations would not have done that. One may not want to forgive and forget, but to use an earlier point, are there not many Nazi's who are *truly* sorry for what they have done? It's a very comendable attitude. At least they admitted to fucking up.
As a final note, Nestle are a company like any other - the survive only by having people buy their products. If they had been deliberately killing small children, they would have been killing the next generation who would have bought their products.