Yeah, that was pretty awful. They pushed formula as being more healthy, which it isn't, and it was made extra bad because they did so in countries that didn't have clean water. Adults in those countries have built up somewhat of an immunity to the diseases in the water, but infants don't have that (they get it from their mother's milk!)

So parents mixed the water with the formula, giving their infants diseases they didn't have any protection against because they didn't get any antibodies from their mother's milk

You wrote this in past tense but sadly they're still doing it :(

I posted this above a few times, thanks for reinforcing this with your own post.

This is HEINOUS behavior, and the primary reason I won't support any Nestle company or product.

I imagine the blue bottle customer base is made up of the type of people who would boycott over something like this.

Why? Blue Bottle customers are hipsters who like to pay extra for faux fancy goods. Why would they be especially likely to disacommodate themselves to benefit faraway people?

Pity that all customer bases weren't made up of people who would boycott a company of such a tactic.