• @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    Literally impossible to avoid Nestle. Even going to a restaurant or getting take out, benefitted Nestle in some way. Really it’s the fault of governments for allowing a corporation to get that big

    • macniel
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      242 years ago

      It’s hard but not impossible. When you go grocery shopping always look at the back of the product to see if it has the taint.

      Problem is indeed the restaurant as you can’t be sure if they didn’t you nestle products.

      • Kushan
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        222 years ago

        I can’t help but notice you have disagreed with the comment above you, then gone on to explain that the exception to your disagreement is the exact scenario they described.

        • macniel
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          Except no? Its not “literally impossible” to avoid nestle. You simply have to shop your groceries more mindful.

          But okay, if its utterly impossible to look on the back of the package and or do a quick internet search to see if that label belongs to nestle, yeah its impossible.

          • @Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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            22 years ago

            Subsidiary companies, basically companies that are owned by another, to my knowledge are not required to display that they’re owned by another company. Or if they do, it’s in EXTREMELY fine lettering.

            A lot of the time, you have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of what brands are nestle brands, or yes, it’s actually impossibly to make a decision.

        • macniel
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          72 years ago

          Sure, its pissing against the wind. And I lose out on kitkat and lion (damn i liked that bar) or I need to buy “clones” but I can’t wholeheartedly buy their shit. It may not be much, but atleast i can live with myself.

          • TheRealKuni
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            42 years ago

            You could order KitKat from the US. Hershey makes it here.

            I wouldn’t recommend it though, Nestle KitKat is much better. It’s a shame Nestle is so evil or else I’d be driving over to Canada to stock up every few weeks.

          • twelve20two
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            22 years ago

            The amount of sugar and palm kernel oil in Nestle chocolate makes me not even enjoy their products if I get them for free. They barely taste like cocoa

      • Glifted
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        142 years ago

        It’s not always that obvious. Nestle owns many companies and many of those products say nothing about Nestle on them.

          • macniel
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            32 years ago

            Thats a searchable list of all products/brands by Nestle? Thats quite helpful!

        • macniel
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          Sure they do own many companies. I just dont think its impossible, as I steer clear of anything nestle. Sometimes I grab something new and sounds interesting like the Vegan products by Gourmet Garden and just putting it quickly back as I saw nestles logo printed on the back.

          It takes a bit of discipline.

          • JokeDeity
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            52 years ago

            Lol, no, you don’t understand. Companies (literally millions of them) own many other companies that they never put any logo on or anything. For an outside of Nestle example, check out this list of companies owned by Kroger that you will never find anything labeled by Kroger inside of:

            https://www.kroger.com/i/kroger-family-of-companies

            Also this list may be VERY incomplete because it’s hosted by Kroger and they have no obligation to give the entire truth here.

            • Food 4 Less, Ralph’s, and Jay C Foods all have Kroger brand foods on their shelves. Not sure about the rest as I haven’t shopped at the rest of those stores. Also they are attempting to acquire Albertson’s.

            • macniel
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              I’ve never seen Kroger nor any of that companies. Do they sell in Germany?

              And if the umbrella company is proud of thier products they bought, of course they put their label on it or state it somewhere. Where else would be the point of it? Brand recognition and all.

              • Coolcoder360
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                62 years ago

                Kroger is a grocery store chain in the US, I suspect they don’t operate in Germany but I might be wrong.

                They basically are or own many different grocery store chains across most of the US.

          • Glifted
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            42 years ago

            I think you’re missing the point I was making. There’s a lot of Nestlé products that don’t have their logo anywhere on the packaging because it’s instead made by a company Nestlé owns

          • JokeDeity
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            22 years ago

            “It takes a bit of discipline.”

            Also, you should work on your tone, speaking like you’re holier than thou is already cringe, but when you’re wrong it just makes you look like a big idiot.

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              I don’t think they were saying it ONLY takes a bit of discipline. To me, the charitable interpretation is, they’re saying that they see something new they want, and see the nestle logo, and the act of denying the want takes discipline.

              You’re both right, of course. It DOES take discipline to always put back the nestle-labeled goods, and there are MANY nestle-subsidiary-owned items that don’t have a nestle logo in sight

              Edit: ok, a bit lower hea def being holier than thou a bit lol

            • macniel
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              12 years ago

              Yes it does take a bit of discipline. And no, I dont think I’m holier than thou.

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      Is it? I’ve not knowingly consumed anything from Nestlé in 20 years.

      Edit: I have a bland palate and having a dairy allergy helps. I’m also incredibly stubborn!

      • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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        82 years ago

        Oh you’ve consumed Nestle, you just don’t know it. They have over 200, brands and millions of individual products. Not to mention their non food companies. Again, it’s an issue that governments should have dealt with long ago, and never should have let them get that big

    • @psud@lemmy.world
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      Eating zerocarb (aka carnivore) works, especially if you only drink tap water; Add coffee and you have to be a little careful

      Also be careful on soaps and hair care

    • Aaron
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      72 years ago

      I dunno, Nestle owns basically the who’s-who of terrible processed food and snack brands. Avoiding them isn’t just good activism, it’s good for your health, too.

    • @candle_lighter@lemmy.ml
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      62 years ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems that as long as you don’t buy processed foods in America you should be able to easily avoid Nestle?

      • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        32 years ago

        Not only in America. Yes, you can avoid processed food, buying fresh food, but Nestle isn’t only processed food, also water, almost all brands of coffee, sweets, cosmetics, animal food, etc… If you live on a farm with a garden and chickens, with your own well and drink an herbal infusion instead of coffee, washing with your own soap. maybe you can avoid using Nestle products.

      • @NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org
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        22 years ago

        Around 3/4 of US adults are either overweight or obese; avoiding giving into the urge to eat processed foods is a problem all on its own