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By: Did we learn anything from the Nestle Family Twitter-storm? | Crunchy Domestic Goddess

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:38:37 +0000

[...] where there isn’t access to clean water, child slave labor in the chocolate industry, the bottled water), others (from both sides of the debate) turned to name calling and snark. Still others tried to [...]

By: carolbrowne

carolbrowne — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:33:27 +0000

It never occurred to me to continue to support parts of a company before now. But it makes sense – buying the candy and not the water. Not the point of the post, but, still. Not 100% bad is all I’m saying.

Also, I’m doing better about not being distracted by fancy packaging. And doing research as well as just accepting something because “I heard somewhere…”.

By: OHmommy

OHmommy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:26:21 +0000

I personally know a handful of people that declined Nestle’s invitation due to their ethics. I get that. I really do. But I also would have loved to have some of those people whom are passionate about the subject here. To address the issues. THAT would have been powerful and not a silent protest.

By: meloukhia

meloukhia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:16:22 +0000

This is about more than just formula marketing practices, as well; it’s also about the fact that Nestle uses chocolate produced with slave labor, supports illegal dictatorships, engages in questionable environmental practices, and is in numerous other ways ethically unsound.

It’s kind of a pity that formula has become the center of the debate. This isn’t about whether people choose to formula feed or breast feed, but about a company’s poor ethical standards.

I’m very proud of the bloggers who declined invites to this event, and shocked by bloggers who accepted invites even after being aware of Nestle’s practices. (And shame on the people who just took the freebies without doing a little bit of research to find out where they came from.)

By: Adventures In Babywearing

Adventures In Babywearing — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:40:46 +0000

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up when I was invited to be a part of #nestlefamily. I immediately contacted a few friends for more info about Nestle’s ethic issues- wanting to be sure that things were still going on and hadn’t been resolved somehow without my knowledge. I just couldn’t align myself and my blog with the company (I totally didn’t want to get involved in what I knew was bound to happen aka hashtag drama) even if I would have been going to ask questions or call them out on the things you posted about.

I know almost every blogger going and have to say they are good people with good intentions. There’s a very good chance that they were not aware of the controversy when they accepted their invites. Or if they were aware, I have a feeling they didn’t know the magnitude of it all.

I do believe the event has shed light and brought forth great discussion regarding Nestle, blogging, ethics, etc here in blogs and on Twitter. I hope from here on it has a positive outcome for the bloggers attending and that Nestle will speak out on it and make a change. For the better.

Steph

By: EarnestGirl

EarnestGirl — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:43:56 +0000

Yes To Marshall McLuhan. No to Nestle (though, sometimes, it is true, yes to the chocolate which has wider-reaching Ivory Coast-ish concerns, but one can only be so dilligent or else one becomes bat-shit crazy. er.) And a rousing bravo to your post because, yes to thinking, people! And yes to thinking out loud, in front of the children.
p.s.: When your kids / family is ready to check it out, there is a very good (& Canadian) book called Made You Look (How Advertising Works & Why You Should Know) about marketing to kids, written with a kid’s POV in mind: http://site.annickpress.com/catalog/catalog.aspx?Title=Made+You+Look

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:17:13 +0000

Amen! We need to know what we’re getting into, and make thoughtful decisions about the companies we support. Accepting a high-profile invitation is pretty much supporting the company, I think. If you agree with them, fine, but please do your research first.