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0 pointsmrguyorama2y ago0 comments

Making weapons of war is a kind of banal evil that most people can wrap their heads around.

Nestle spent enormous effort purposely convincing impoverished mothers in third world countries to spend their little money on Nestle infant formula despite knowing 1) The mothers would not be able to get clean water to make the formula with 2) would not be able to properly refrigerate unused but already mixed formula, which is a foodborne illness time bomb 3) that the mothers could not afford enough formula to adequately feed their infants, and the infants would be malnourished as a result

And they did this while trying to convince people formula was "healthier", while they knew that to be untrue.

When an infant formula company poisoned some kids in China meanwhile, some company execs literally got the death penalty.

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nickff2y ago· 1 in thread

If you read the Wiki, you'll see that weapon's manufacturing is nowhere near the worst thing Krupp did. Krupp used Jewish slave labor during WWII, and treated the slaves so badly that the SS criticized them for it.

pixxel2y ago

That was 80 years ago. Why are you disrupting the current topic on Nestle current evils.

margalabargala2y ago

> When an infant formula company poisoned some kids in China meanwhile, some company execs literally got the death penalty.

The melamine tainted milk was purchased and used by...Nestle.

https://abc7chicago.com/archive/6405382/

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