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Re:Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem Wi... by danilocampos on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:15AM (#6379504)
> A very minor part of it comes from mineral water: there are those who think that if tap is good enough for them then no one should use the bottled kind. A rather more serious part of it comes from the production of baby formula.

This is garbage writing that's misleading to boot. The issues with Nestlé and water are much more about its pursuit of water rights at the expense of local populations. These are hardly frivolous concerns. One day you wake up and find that globalization has priced water outside of your income bracket.

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Re:Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem Wi... by shocks on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:24AM (#6379540)
More like the time they convinced women in third world countries to use formula over breast milk, gave them poor instructions on using it that resulted in hundreds of infant deaths, then subsequently withdrew the formula these women now depended on as their breasts no longer produced milk, and hundreds more babies died...
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