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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 88 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was kind of surprised that they tried to astroturf here. Reddit probably has their back and they got too cocky.

The company has been associated with various controversies, facing criticism and boycotts over its marketing of baby formula as an alternative to breastfeeding in developing countries (where clean water may be scarce), its reliance on suppliers that use child labour in cocoa production, and its production and promotion of bottled water.

Nestlé is involved in many significant controversies due to Nestlé's reported use of

  • Baby milk controversy
  • incidents of contaminated and infested food products,
  • actively spreading disinformation about recycling,
  • illegal water-pumping from drought-stricken Native American reservations,
  • preventing access to non-bottled water in impoverished countries,
  • price fixing,
  • slave labor,
  • child labor,
  • extensive union-busting activity, and
  • deforestation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversies

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago

Where did they try that here?

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I saw it come across on Lemmy, not sure if it was this community or not. I meant Lemmy when I said here.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago

Yes, I was just wondering what I missed. I did not see it and I'm in this website basically 24/7

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I thought it was one of the microblog communities, but not positive. It was someone having 6 kitkats stacked up and taking a bite out of all of them.

I've had a really shitty flu, so I've been on way too much myself.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Wait, are you saying that you think nestle had a direct hand in that post?

Seemed like a comical idea of eating way too much candy using something that was flat because the shape worked.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

When you say "nestle," what do you mean?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The company you seemed to be implying was astroturfing in the parent post when you said this and followed it up with a solid description of how shitty they are as a company.

I was kind of surprised that they tried to astroturf here.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, what do you mean by nestle? Do they have bots that probably send out advertisements disguised as posts? Abso-fucking-lutely. A pizza company had one just a few days ago. These are super easy to spot here on Lemmy. Is it one of the suits in the c-suite? Nah.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 4 days ago

Just a guess, but when the person you're replying to says "nestle" they mean "the company of nestle, it's employees and all their bullshit" rather than "this specific person from the company" like most people...

I doubt many people are under the illusion that major players in any company are directly involved with astroturfing on websites they don't own.

It's always going to be a low level employee, possibly even an unpaid intern.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Right, which is why I explained it below.

No, what do you mean by nestle? Do they have bots that probably send out advertisements disguised as posts? Abso-fucking-lutely. A pizza company had one just a few days ago. These are super easy to spot here on Lemmy. Is it one of the suits in the c-suite? Nah.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Baby milk controversy

I have some women coworkers and a couple of years ago they were sitting in the break room lamenting how hard it was to find formula. I naively asked them why they didn't breastfeed and they looked at me like I'd grown an extra head. It's absolutely astonishing that after 200 million years of successful breastfeeding (which even gives us our "mammal" name), a corporation was able to convince women that no, they should be feeding their babies with shit from a can made in factory.

[-] Drigo@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 days ago

Not everybody can breastfeed tho.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 days ago

So there shouldn't be a stigma around a mother paying or accepting donated milk from another lactating woman. But we're still at the stage where feeding a synthetic concoction made from a different species' breastmilk is okay, but saying another woman breastfeeds your baby would get you weird looks. Wet nurses used to be a thing!

Sure, but that's not the case with the vast majority of women who use formula. Nestle doesn't market this stuff as a product for women who can't breastfeed, they market it as something superior to breast milk in general.

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