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Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yikes, of course not.

I want Switzerland to regulate Nestle's behaviour and I want the US, the EU, and everywhere in the West where it operates to regulate it similarly.

Foe example, if you see my link elsewhere in here, according to UNICEF Nestle is in clear violation of the Breast Milk Substitute Code, and that should be better enforced for a start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sure. I do too, but whatever Nestle subsidiary that operates in South Africa, can only be regulated by the South African government. There is no other option today. Not as long as Capitalism is the assumed world economic system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Parent companies should be legally held accountable for their subsidiaries though.

The thing is we do this with citizens all the time. For example if a citizen of my nation goes and commits pedophilia overseas they are still prosecuted for it. Similarly of they commission a third party to commit a crime for them.

This is something we are beginning to see in an international context with companies that commission crimes such as the landmark Lundin Petroleum (a Swiss company) trial last year, over corporate complicity (incitement really) of human rights abuses in Sudan.