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...strangely ideological protest that seemed to array impoverished Third World mothers and their babies against a multinational corporation. It went on for 6½ years, but last week it ended. Officials of Nestlé, the biggest supplier of infant formula, and the Infant Formula Action Coalition of Minneapolis, among others, agreed that the boycott of Nestlé products would be stopped if the Swiss company changed its marketing practices...
...Junior Leaguers, and you appear at Miss America preliminaries. Here a blueberry festival, there a strawberry festival, and the odd hog-calling contest comes into the picture too. And you represent the sponsors of the pageant. This year that would be Gillette, American Greetings Corp., McDonald's and Nestlé. Jacque Mercer (1949) once told an interviewer: "You could take an orangutan, and, with a year's training, it would be a perfectly adequate Miss America...
...March and October, a nine-day Chocolate Lover's Tour of Switzerland whisks aficionados around such top chocolatiers as Lindt, Suchard, Nestlé and Tobler. Cost: $1,600, chocolates and one cathedral included...
...article on the confirmation hearings of Ernest Lefever [June 1] you falsely state that "Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries." There is no such study. Although I agreed to write a monograph for Lefever. I have not done the study nor have I received a penny...
...result of such practices, a world-wide boycott was organized in 1977 against the Swiss-based Nestlé company, which accounts for 50% of formula sales to the Third World. Three U.S. firms-Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products and Bristol-Myers-together share 20% of that market. Two years later, Nestlé and the U.S. firms agreed to voluntary guidelines that banned such marketing abuses in developing nations. Antiformula activists say those rules were widely violated, so they pressed the WHO, an agency of the United Nations, to draw up the code adopted last week. Though they are not binding...