nestle

yeah, thats right. Its strange huh

Yeah but say a company sets up, and it wants to use this one chemical in its soap, but people only know the chemical's safe because it was treated on animals twenty years ago...I can't really blame the new company. Most chemicals will have been tested on animals at SOME point

i know it is so annoying! arent there any good companies which dont use chemicals which arent tested on animals

With the whole testing on animals thing...good luck finding things that arent. Not only does almost all makeup contain chemicals that are tested on animals, but nearly every medication you take has been tested on animals. People use animal testing in order to further our own species, insulin, for example, would have never been developed without animal testing.

As far as the Nestle issue, there is so much wrong in South Africa and Nestle is only a small part of a very big problem. My entire undergraduate thesis was based in South Africa, and I did a lot of research on the healthcare system. In nearly every colonized country in the world there have been major problems. In Africa, the current countries exist not because of the tribes that lived there, but rather because of colonization. The entire country was divided by the ruling colonies, without regard for Tribes, and current divisions. That was only the beginning of the problem. Then the natives of the area were repressed, in culture, in tradition, in health, often with the final step being Apartheid. And Apartheid existed in many Africa countries until the 1990's. In South Africa in particular, the natives were pushed into "townships", which were basically slums outside the cities. These townships have little to no access to proper education, water, food, healthcare or income. During the 1980's AIDS crisis, when South Africa decided to bring in generic (products that are copies of existing drugs...for example: Ibuprofen is the generic of Advil) antiretrovirals 39 different Pharmaceutical companies sued South Africa. They sued because the Antiretrovirals were still under copyright, which meant that costs were much much higher for the name brand drugs. People were dying and becoming infected at unprecedented rates because they couldnt afford the drugs. And when an affordable option was brought in, the Drug Giants sued.

The issue with the formula isnt just dirty water, but that families try and stretch formula out because they cant afford it, and the babies also die from malnutrition.

Nestle is only following on the coat tails of many other bigger companies, Im not condoning it by any means, but the problems and the examples are far too numerous to count and to boycott.

Sorry to be a downer, but the reality is more than just Nestle.

For Makeup, check out Arbonne. Not sure if its available in the UK, but they do all the testing themselves (including the development of new chemicals..which are all plant based).

Also, sorry for how disjointed my arguments seem...I only got a couple of hours of sleep last night, Im not running on full brain capacity.