From what I can gather, none of the companies are “snow white” but Nestle is by far the most ruthless and the biggest.

My eldest daughter was born in France, at a clinic that obviously had some kind of deal with Milupa as the doctor was more like a used car salesman, such was his hard sell on Milupa products!

When people ask why I believe the boycotters over Nestle, my response is that I’ve no first hand evidence from either side, but consider this – Nestle is the worlds biggest food conglomerate, with huge budgets both for PR and Legal representation.

If Baby Milk Action made a single untrue claim that harms sales then Nestle’s lawyers would quite rightly have them up in court.

You don’t hear a lot about the boycott in the mainstream printed/television media – true, but stop to count how many adverts Nestle place, and you might get an incline why! A few years ago just before Christmas they sued the Ethiopian government for something like £3 billion at a time of famine, you’d expect the British tabloids to have a field day with references to “scrooge” but in actual fact most chose to ignore it, and a few of the more serious papers gave it a tiny amount of coverage – nobody wants to piss off a major advertiser!

To those that say them boycotting won’t make any difference, you might as well say there is no point in voting in the election since your vote won’t actually make any difference – which is true, but if everyone thought like that…

The thing to remember is that Nestle’s profits are built entirely on people buying their products. By not buying them yourself (I estimate that if I didn’t boytcott Neslte products I’d be giving them about $500 a year in factory gate prices – I probably don’t give that much to charity in a year, I’m certainly not going to support them) and spreading the word, in time they might actually have to do the right thing – and more importantly it would send out a message to other corporations that wrongdoing WILL affect your bottom line, regardless of how much you spend on advertising.

I fear of maths just an equation to really freak us out?