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jasonlane:
Worserist, betterer
xyle_one:
quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
What's wrong with Nestl
Laukev7:
Ugh. This is indeed a horrible business tactic. But why on earth would anyone want to buy seeds that produce sterile plants?
xyle_one:
Why do they buy it? Who knows. But the damage has been done and its fucked up.
quote: Critics argue that, as this technology spreads, it will introduce into nature more and more varieties of plants that cannot reproduce. One fear is that cross fertilization between terminator crops and related wild varieties will result in reducing the natural viability of many non-cultivated plant species. It may also have the effect of greatly reducing the genetic diversity of staple food crops worldwide. Up to this time, it is diversity itself that has made possible the steady improvement of crop yields, resistance to disease, and adaptation to changing and marginal growing conditions. Terminator technology would displace all those considerations from the realm of nature into the hands of bio-technicians and marketeers.
Pressure to use terminator seed might also gradually force poor farmers out of farming altogether, if they are unable or unwilling to buy new seed each year. This will have the effect of further consolidating agricultural production in fewer and richer hands throughout the developing world, as has already happened in the developed world....
...If the world is to find a way to feed its constantly growing population, there is no doubt that new agricultural breakthroughs are needed. But Terminator Seed technology may have more to do with corporate profits than improved productivity. Like the equally controverial subject of cloning, this trend in biotechnology raises numerous moral as well as scientific questions -- going right to the heart of humankind's relationship with nature -- that have yet to be adequately addressed.
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Horrible. I can't find any info on people who buy it, though someone is.
Nestle=
quote:Promotes breast-milk substitute bottle feeding in third world countries by giving free product to mothers in hospitals. This means that the mother stops lactating and the mothers are forced to buy Nestles products to feed their baby - and they can't really afford to. In the USA, formulas must contain the warning that "Breast milk is best" for babies, and our hospitals won't give out such samples. Other countries don't always have such protections, and Nestle takes advantage...
As breastfeeding.com puts it: In order to sell more of its infant formula in third world countries, Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. The free samples lasted long enough for the mother's breast milk to dry up from lack of use.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 1.5 million infants die around the world every year because they are not breastfed.
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That is fucked up. These companies are killing people. Microsoft is not. But this is an anti-ms site, so this discussion belongs someplace else.
Laukev7:
quote: Nestle=
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Promotes breast-milk substitute bottle feeding in third world countries by giving free product to mothers in hospitals. This means that the mother stops lactating and the mothers are forced to buy Nestles products to feed their baby - and they can't really afford to. In the USA, formulas must contain the warning that "Breast milk is best" for babies, and our hospitals won't give out such samples. Other countries don't always have such protections, and Nestle takes advantage...
As breastfeeding.com puts it: In order to sell more of its infant formula in third world countries, Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. The free samples lasted long enough for the mother's breast milk to dry up from lack of use.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 1.5 million infants die around the world every year because they are not breastfed.
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That is fucked up. These companies are killing people. Microsoft is not. But this is an anti-ms site, so this discussion belongs someplace else.
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Oh, my god. WHY would poor women choose an albeit free, artificial product over breastfeeding???
Disgusting. This alone makes me add Nestl
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