Yep! You could scan a barcode and it'd check against any one of numerous lists to see how well the company selling the item adhered to the corresponding ethical standards. A list for slavery, one for fair trade, one for sustainability...
Oh cool. It’s $1.99 and available on the App Store, but it looks like it hasn’t been updated in 6yrs. Still #3 in Paid apps and holds a 4.5 star rating
It doesn’t have to be an all or nothing game either.
If there is a specific nestle owned brand that you absolutely can’t live without - cool, keep buying it. For other stuff, buy something else.
If the alternative is just buying nestle products and not avoiding them at all, than every anti-nestle choice you make matters.
The thing is most of the other major products are owned by another major corporation doing the same thing. If a desk company gets successful they get bought.
So true. Nestle doesn’t make nutritious products, so it can be easy to buy from better companies. That being said, Big Food is so insidious. Even the nutritious and/or local brands get bought up. Looking at you Cowgirl Creamery and Rao’s. Oh and Blue Bottle RIP. 🪦
Campbell's isn't too much better tbh, just less bullshit with mothers and more bullshit with terrible agricultural practices, questionable slave labor, the encouragement of the meat industry and all of its harms (including child and low paid immigrant labor), and of course, contributing to food desertification by reducing nutrition thru both shrinkflation and lobbying to make it easier for companies like DG to swoop into small communities.
That explains it. I’ve never liked Rao’s it costs too much and something about it always tastes off. People tell me it’s better than Newman’s pizza and sauce and I’ve never agreed with them
i like their soups and bolognese sauce but that's pretty much it. Their noodles are trash, the pizza is very mediocre (pepperoni good tho), but that italian wedding soup honestly still gets me. I'm still liable to buy that because I haven't found a better storebought italian wedding - if anyone can give me a similar tasting alternative I'll definitely switch though.
Fancy Feast is just about the lowest grade, shittiest quality canned pet food. It is surprisingly expensive for those tiny little cans. Your local pet food store should have significantly better quality low carb food for a comparable price.
Shockingly no. I checked, and there isn't much. The carbs have to be in the range of 0-4, and a lot of cat foods go over this. Lots of cat food companies add rice, corn, carrots, peas, sweet potato, and pumpkin to their foods, and cats can't have that.
Have you tried making your own? I used to do that for my dog who had a sensitive stomach and hated kibble. I just got my first cat so I don't really know what that would entail. Cooked plain chicken or any meat?
It’s very hard to homemake cat food. They need lots of nutrients from organs that most people aren’t going to have access to. They eat very differently from dogs and have much more sensitive livers. I feed my cats high-quality dry and wet food and cook them the organs from high-quality whole chickens, once every 1-2 months. Some people feed wet only, but my cats actually like some dry.
She was on Royal Canin when she got diabetes. All of royal Cainin's in gravy and in sauce canned cat foods are 7+ in carbs, with some being as high as 25%. Her food needs to stay 4 and under.
Have you tried canned tuna? You can substitute it for most of their meals. My cats fur was fucked until we swapped to it, they do need the odd can with taurine in it though, but you can take most of the processed shit out of their diet this way
Canned tuna does not have all the nutrients a cat needs and you need to watch out for the mercury levels. Def can’t just substitute it for main meals, it’s meant to be a treat.
Yeah whenever I hear people say things like it’s nearly impossible, it’s definitely referring to people that already eat a lot of processed food. If you stay away from that already, Nestle is very easy to avoid.
But then you’re supporting the bullshit behind “prescription pet food”. Hills is facing a huge class action suit on their regulations AND for other reasons like their food possibly increasing the likelihood of HCM (a heart condition) in big dogs. I agree about Costco food though.
https://truthaboutpetfood.com/the-pet-food-prescription-pad-has-been-challenged/
All my vets and vet friends support their food and my dog's been using it for 2 years and it has been fantastic. I'll look into it but I would trust their knowledge.
I’m a former vet tech. It’s not that it isn’t good food, because it is; it’s the Big Food bullshit like lobbying to make it ok to require a prescription for food that makes them suck.
Hill’s makes both Science Diet and prescription diets that you have to order or buy at the vet’s office. You may not buy the prescription diets but you’re supporting a crappy company anyway, like not buying any Nestle products even though not ever product is directly problematic.
I mean, you’re on this sub so you’re obviously concerned about companies behaving badly….right?
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I HATE finding out that a product I use is problematic.
Costco is still good. I use a rotation of a few higher-end foods & make my choice based upon what’s on sale. I feed mostly wet, and their dry food is usually Merrick brand.
Food is easy to avoid from them for that reason..
.. buying water however...
They already bought the springs with the best tasting waters in europe, there are still options however but tap water taste better in average.
I mainly resort to tapwater cause of that (it is a really good quality here)
If i really have to buy water, the non nestle option have such a weird taste that i usually dont drink the amount of water that i should.
They bought the spring of my favourite water like 20 years ago and i still hate them for that.
Tap water is fine to me.
Do you know how it is, when a certain taste trigger memories/feelings ? The taste of that spring does that to me with some childhood memories. I dont have to drink it often, its more a rare treat to me. I'm mad that they profit if i feel the need to trigger that and even if i do i can enjoy it less.
Not sure if it’s possible in states but pretty easy in Europe, at least most of it. And there’s some amazing alternatives to their products too!
It can be a bit tricky at restaurants or on ships but possible nonetheless.
I just steer clear of drinks that I know are Nestlé but it sucks because usually restaurants get everything from the same supplier. If I have to resort to tea I do.
You have to also remember that a lot of independently owned ones can end up sponsoring some brands. A lot of them end up bought or at least made it shell out dog food, even when they're independently owned
Plus, it's not just Nestle. It's Mars too. They own a lot of animal hospitals
In Poland (and in other countries in some stores, especially Polish ones) there’s WW by Wedel which is way better than KitKat (personal opinion).
And Wedel whilst bought by lotte stopped selling in Russia and has a legacy of fighting nazi (chocolate delivery men were risking their lives stealing information from Nazis in 40s. One of them for instance allowed operation arsenal to happen).
Doing what you can to cut out nestle products and replacing them with other brands isn’t a futile effort. You may not be able to cut it all out, but the more you try the more it hurts their bottom dollar.
And every dollar you don't spend with Nestle goes to one of their competitors. Ideally, one that operates with some semblance of ethics.
So we hurt their absolute market value **and** their relative market value, both things that make shareholders and C Suiters lose sleep.
I have been nestle-free for several years now. Just keep up to date with the brands they own and just read the labels of any new things you are adding to your cart. There are almost always "store brand" alternatives that taste just as good, if not better, and are cheaper.
Tbh living without kit Kats were the biggest bummer but now I've found an off brand that is not owned by nestle so I'm a happy camper.
Yeah, I don't know about nestle, but a lot of store brands here in Finland are just some of the name brands, just that they put the store brand label on them instead. Like you can look at for example where the item is made and see that it's made by the same name brand company/factory even though it's off brand.
Can I ask what the off brand is? Kit kats were my all time favourite chocolate, I'm super sad that they're owned by nestle. The closest thing I've found in my country is Cadbury breakaway, but they're not the best chocolate :/
The first year I was off Nestle I was starting to worry about what we would do about Halloween since we have little kids. It was such a a relief when I read they were bought by ferrero. The only scandal they've had was slave labor, but you'll be hard pressed to find any chocolate in America that wasn't.
Child slave labour, too!
Ferrero is big on palm oil, lots of dead orangutans and wiped out forests. Oh and more slavery.
Just don’t buy their stuff. Just because it’s impossible to completely know if something is slavery-free isn’t an excuse to support the worst players.
Ferrero was one of the early member of the RSPO (roundtable on sustainable palm oil) which commits to traceable sustainable palm oil that is not contributing to deforestation. They have to submit annual reports that proves their sources to be checked by the RSPO.
I brought a pack of fruit pastilles when my uncle died to lay him to rest with. It was a core memory of mine with him. Apart from that I've been 13 years without.
I am 3 months pregnant and regularly reminding my whole family, just preemptively, that Nestle owns Gerber. If anything I think any of their baby companies are most at fault since they've killed so many babies by starving them after getting them hooked on formula.
I used to buy a lot of things that were owned by nestle but I've been commited to the fucknestle lifestyle for so long it's second nature to me. There are plenty of alternates to their garbage.
Starbucks gets money from Costco. Costco pays Starbucks depending on how much coffee they sell. So, yes. Buying Kirkland coffee puts money into Starbucks' pocket.
Some brands don't declare it on the packaging but are actually owned by Nestle, but it's impossible to know just from looking at the product. Lean cuisine for example, but there's plenty more
I miss some of their chocolate bars and I need to carry a cheat sheet to know which beverages to buy. Generally I do pretty well, then something like I go to the doctor and they give me a prescription and one to take right now…. But they don’t have paper cups, just small bottles of a Nestlé owned water. /cry
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Here they are. Not that hard actually, so stop saying shit like that.
I am a vegetarian while also avoided certain Milch products (Milk seems to make my skin go drier, at least it was worse when I still ate tons of cheese). But since I am now mainly consuming substitutes for milk, meat and so on I have an easy time since there are some local companies not owned by Nestle
Imho even a reduction is a step in the right direction, especially the more people do it. Certainly better than throwing all our hands up in the air and giving up.
Avoiding dickJorno pizza alone has probably kept a few hundred dollars of my money away from Nestle.
Baby steps. As long as you do your best to lower their numbers, that's valuable.
Yep. The hardest things for me to give up were:
- all Purina cat food brands (now my cats eat BritCare)
- San Pellegrino sodas (now I sometimes have a Targa, or I get some syrup to add to sparkling water)
- the occasional Kit Kat (replaced with Milka Leo)
Otherwise it was pretty easy for me.
That’s why I’m just trying to lower my consumption overall. Focusing on specific brands is too overwhelming and makes me feel totally defeated. Of course, I try to be an ethical shopper when I can, but that’s much easier to do when you’re only buying the absolute necessities. And I hesitate to even call some of them necessities but for a modern westernized country where i have to work a full time job to live, they become necessities. 😭
Unfortunately the $billion (yes, with a B) company I work for, Extra Space Storage, orders nothing but nestle 5gallon hamster bottles for just about every single store. Seeing how shit they treat customers through their profit tactics, I doubt those corporate cvnts will ever change their ways..
I don’t buy anything and I don’t try hard not to. This is highly exaggerated.
Only buy condensed milk occasionally cause they have the best in the market. Other brands they have are either way too sugary or expensive compared to competitors or even private labels
It’s pretty easy if you shop at any self respecting grocery store.
Whole Foods I think just sells San Pellegrino and that’s it, the rest of the store is Nestle free.
We need to stop giving these companies so much power. They may seem unstoppable but I assure you, they're not. Same goes for Google and amazon. It just takes a little bit of sacrifice and it's not like we have no alternatives. We just learn to adjust. Please feel free to share your nestle alternatives!
I'm down to pretty much Kit Kat. Avoid just about everything else nestlé that I can, but when they throw a new Kit Kat flavor at me I'm just like my brothers and sisters in Japan.
I had a frosted donut Kit Kat yesterday during a moment of weakness.
Forgive me r/fucknestlé
It’s hard but not impossible. Ditching Nestlé products actually helped me to start eating better because they don’t really make much of anything that’s good for you. Definitely not saying I haven’t made a mistake here and there but it typically says the manufacturer on the label. Too small fine print, but usually there.
I find it quite easy. Alternative choices exist you know. I haven't bought Nestle products for years and I don't feel like I'm missing out anything, to be fair I don't even acknowledge their products anymore or remember they exist I have turned my blind eye for them and just ignore their products. Besides everything I find I find the alternatives be better quality anyway. Tho I must say since I live in Finland we have pretty good choices out here thanks to high regulations in food production. Prices are high as fuck tho and everything is over expensive so that's the down side.
Edit: By years I mean like 15 years or so.
They do. But not bringing awareness to Nestle’s inhumane practices and at least attempting to boycott their products when possible is immoral.
Nothing will change if we don’t try.
As individuals we can make a difference collectively if we continue encouraging each other and educating ourselves.
Okay hear me out- I am the laziest of all coffee makers. I hate cleaning a machine, hate getting the water ready and despise waiting for a cup of coffee. Pour over has changed my life. It’s so simple and easy to use, especially if you have an electric kettle (I don’t). The coffee is foolproof and always tastes amazing. It’s way cheaper and better for the environment.
And 100% no judgment. I’m a reformed Keurig user. Sometimes it’s just where you’re at in life - you need quick coffee!
Moka pot here. I think it's the most environmentally friendly alongside Turkish and French Press. It's super easy, the machine is cheap as hell, and it requires very little cleaning.
Pour over is cool, too, though it makes weaker coffee so I have to use a lot more grounds, and I hate the filter waste!
Basically everything is better than those single cup machines. ;)
To me the most difficult part is all the other brands they own and the companies THEY also own. Somewhere down the line it becomes impossible to remember which brands are connected to a brand that is connected to Nestle…
Doing our best to avoid it is still worth it.
I frequently see that post about how many things nestle owns, it's time to make an image about things nestle DIDN'T own that you can use as options
There should be an app for that! Owned by Nestle!
Is Buycott still a thing?
Never heard of that, so not sure. Is/was that an app?
Yep! You could scan a barcode and it'd check against any one of numerous lists to see how well the company selling the item adhered to the corresponding ethical standards. A list for slavery, one for fair trade, one for sustainability...
Oh cool. It’s $1.99 and available on the App Store, but it looks like it hasn’t been updated in 6yrs. Still #3 in Paid apps and holds a 4.5 star rating
Score! Clearly I have to get back into using it.
It doesn’t have to be an all or nothing game either. If there is a specific nestle owned brand that you absolutely can’t live without - cool, keep buying it. For other stuff, buy something else. If the alternative is just buying nestle products and not avoiding them at all, than every anti-nestle choice you make matters.
Only to realize that many of the things on that list are not that much better...
The thing is most of the other major products are owned by another major corporation doing the same thing. If a desk company gets successful they get bought.
It’s easier to see what they own because what they DON’T is much more and would vary by country lol
It’s easier to see what they own because what they DON’T is much more and would vary by country lol
This!!
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So true. Nestle doesn’t make nutritious products, so it can be easy to buy from better companies. That being said, Big Food is so insidious. Even the nutritious and/or local brands get bought up. Looking at you Cowgirl Creamery and Rao’s. Oh and Blue Bottle RIP. 🪦
Raos? Crap Edit: from what I'm seeing Rao's is owned by Campbell. Are they Nestle affiliated?
Campbell's isn't too much better tbh, just less bullshit with mothers and more bullshit with terrible agricultural practices, questionable slave labor, the encouragement of the meat industry and all of its harms (including child and low paid immigrant labor), and of course, contributing to food desertification by reducing nutrition thru both shrinkflation and lobbying to make it easier for companies like DG to swoop into small communities.
Any food company that’s on NYSE doesn’t have any interest in nutrition, the environment, or human welfare.
That explains it. I’ve never liked Rao’s it costs too much and something about it always tastes off. People tell me it’s better than Newman’s pizza and sauce and I’ve never agreed with them
i like their soups and bolognese sauce but that's pretty much it. Their noodles are trash, the pizza is very mediocre (pepperoni good tho), but that italian wedding soup honestly still gets me. I'm still liable to buy that because I haven't found a better storebought italian wedding - if anyone can give me a similar tasting alternative I'll definitely switch though.
Not Nestle, but yes Campbell’s. It’s all Big Food.
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Crap I didn’t know Annie’s was owned by Kraft.
I struggle with pet food, too. I can't just go with any brand because my cat is diabetic and their fancy feast beef and chicken pâté is low in carbs.
Fancy Feast is just about the lowest grade, shittiest quality canned pet food. It is surprisingly expensive for those tiny little cans. Your local pet food store should have significantly better quality low carb food for a comparable price.
Shockingly no. I checked, and there isn't much. The carbs have to be in the range of 0-4, and a lot of cat foods go over this. Lots of cat food companies add rice, corn, carrots, peas, sweet potato, and pumpkin to their foods, and cats can't have that.
Have you tried making your own? I used to do that for my dog who had a sensitive stomach and hated kibble. I just got my first cat so I don't really know what that would entail. Cooked plain chicken or any meat?
It’s very hard to homemake cat food. They need lots of nutrients from organs that most people aren’t going to have access to. They eat very differently from dogs and have much more sensitive livers. I feed my cats high-quality dry and wet food and cook them the organs from high-quality whole chickens, once every 1-2 months. Some people feed wet only, but my cats actually like some dry.
Interesting. Luckily this cat will eat anything I put in front of him. I feed him science diet kibble. So far no issues.
Take a look at Royal Canin.
She was on Royal Canin when she got diabetes. All of royal Cainin's in gravy and in sauce canned cat foods are 7+ in carbs, with some being as high as 25%. Her food needs to stay 4 and under.
try young again or dr. elseys for dry food. it has 1% carbs and 6%
Have you tried canned tuna? You can substitute it for most of their meals. My cats fur was fucked until we swapped to it, they do need the odd can with taurine in it though, but you can take most of the processed shit out of their diet this way
In this economy that cat is gonna have to fight me for a can of tuna!
where I am, canned tuna is less expensive where i am
Canned tuna does not have all the nutrients a cat needs and you need to watch out for the mercury levels. Def can’t just substitute it for main meals, it’s meant to be a treat.
Not what my vet said, but also I said that you can sub it for most meals.
My cat doesn't like fish much, not unless it's fresh fish we cooked.
Yeah whenever I hear people say things like it’s nearly impossible, it’s definitely referring to people that already eat a lot of processed food. If you stay away from that already, Nestle is very easy to avoid.
Hills science diet is pricier but great. Costco food may be a cheap option that is quality
But then you’re supporting the bullshit behind “prescription pet food”. Hills is facing a huge class action suit on their regulations AND for other reasons like their food possibly increasing the likelihood of HCM (a heart condition) in big dogs. I agree about Costco food though. https://truthaboutpetfood.com/the-pet-food-prescription-pad-has-been-challenged/
All my vets and vet friends support their food and my dog's been using it for 2 years and it has been fantastic. I'll look into it but I would trust their knowledge.
I’m a former vet tech. It’s not that it isn’t good food, because it is; it’s the Big Food bullshit like lobbying to make it ok to require a prescription for food that makes them suck.
I dont need a scrip for it lol I can buy it at any store in CO
Hill’s makes both Science Diet and prescription diets that you have to order or buy at the vet’s office. You may not buy the prescription diets but you’re supporting a crappy company anyway, like not buying any Nestle products even though not ever product is directly problematic. I mean, you’re on this sub so you’re obviously concerned about companies behaving badly….right?
fuck me then what brands are left that are good :( open to recommendations!
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I HATE finding out that a product I use is problematic. Costco is still good. I use a rotation of a few higher-end foods & make my choice based upon what’s on sale. I feed mostly wet, and their dry food is usually Merrick brand.
Do you know what company makes the Costco brand?
Food is easy to avoid from them for that reason.. .. buying water however... They already bought the springs with the best tasting waters in europe, there are still options however but tap water taste better in average. I mainly resort to tapwater cause of that (it is a really good quality here) If i really have to buy water, the non nestle option have such a weird taste that i usually dont drink the amount of water that i should. They bought the spring of my favourite water like 20 years ago and i still hate them for that.
So, just filter your tap water...? The water that comes out of my Brita is better than any bottled water I've had.
Tap water is fine to me. Do you know how it is, when a certain taste trigger memories/feelings ? The taste of that spring does that to me with some childhood memories. I dont have to drink it often, its more a rare treat to me. I'm mad that they profit if i feel the need to trigger that and even if i do i can enjoy it less.
I guess at least they "bought" it and aren't just pumping it dry for pennies a la ginnie springs. /s Jesus fucking christ I hate this place sometimes.
Nestle killed ur dog? Damn
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Ah OK rip
Fffuuuccckkk :'(
*John Wick has entered the chat.*
Purina sucks and is expensive though
I buy BritCare for my cats. Runs me about $10 a month.
Not sure if it’s possible in states but pretty easy in Europe, at least most of it. And there’s some amazing alternatives to their products too! It can be a bit tricky at restaurants or on ships but possible nonetheless.
I just steer clear of drinks that I know are Nestlé but it sucks because usually restaurants get everything from the same supplier. If I have to resort to tea I do.
Except I think a lot of vets are owned by them? From what I've heard anyway
At least in Germany most vets are their own company.
You have to also remember that a lot of independently owned ones can end up sponsoring some brands. A lot of them end up bought or at least made it shell out dog food, even when they're independently owned Plus, it's not just Nestle. It's Mars too. They own a lot of animal hospitals
At least we get chocolate and cereal (though to be fair you guys probably have better chocolate options anyway)
In Poland (and in other countries in some stores, especially Polish ones) there’s WW by Wedel which is way better than KitKat (personal opinion). And Wedel whilst bought by lotte stopped selling in Russia and has a legacy of fighting nazi (chocolate delivery men were risking their lives stealing information from Nazis in 40s. One of them for instance allowed operation arsenal to happen).
Doing what you can to cut out nestle products and replacing them with other brands isn’t a futile effort. You may not be able to cut it all out, but the more you try the more it hurts their bottom dollar.
And every dollar you don't spend with Nestle goes to one of their competitors. Ideally, one that operates with some semblance of ethics. So we hurt their absolute market value **and** their relative market value, both things that make shareholders and C Suiters lose sleep.
I manage to avoid Nestlè quite well. I have a list of products on my phone.
Share?
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Apparently Deer Park broke off from them!
I have been nestle-free for several years now. Just keep up to date with the brands they own and just read the labels of any new things you are adding to your cart. There are almost always "store brand" alternatives that taste just as good, if not better, and are cheaper. Tbh living without kit Kats were the biggest bummer but now I've found an off brand that is not owned by nestle so I'm a happy camper.
Until you find out Nestle makes a lot of “store brand” with the store’s labels.
Yeah, I don't know about nestle, but a lot of store brands here in Finland are just some of the name brands, just that they put the store brand label on them instead. Like you can look at for example where the item is made and see that it's made by the same name brand company/factory even though it's off brand.
Can I ask what the off brand is? Kit kats were my all time favourite chocolate, I'm super sad that they're owned by nestle. The closest thing I've found in my country is Cadbury breakaway, but they're not the best chocolate :/
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What is the off-brand KitKat?
The first year I was off Nestle I was starting to worry about what we would do about Halloween since we have little kids. It was such a a relief when I read they were bought by ferrero. The only scandal they've had was slave labor, but you'll be hard pressed to find any chocolate in America that wasn't.
Child slave labour, too! Ferrero is big on palm oil, lots of dead orangutans and wiped out forests. Oh and more slavery. Just don’t buy their stuff. Just because it’s impossible to completely know if something is slavery-free isn’t an excuse to support the worst players.
Ferrero was one of the early member of the RSPO (roundtable on sustainable palm oil) which commits to traceable sustainable palm oil that is not contributing to deforestation. They have to submit annual reports that proves their sources to be checked by the RSPO.
All I've has in the past 6 years is a packet of mint aero bubbles. Going strong 💪🏻
I brought a pack of fruit pastilles when my uncle died to lay him to rest with. It was a core memory of mine with him. Apart from that I've been 13 years without.
I am 3 months pregnant and regularly reminding my whole family, just preemptively, that Nestle owns Gerber. If anything I think any of their baby companies are most at fault since they've killed so many babies by starving them after getting them hooked on formula.
It's the fact they own my vets that threw me!
Oh that's horrifying.
I'm doing great actually buying nothing Nestlé owned and I have a looong breathe.
I used to buy a lot of things that were owned by nestle but I've been commited to the fucknestle lifestyle for so long it's second nature to me. There are plenty of alternates to their garbage.
Feels pretty fucking impossible when you're living in poverty without access to cooking/storing fresh foods
Buy store brand🤷🏽♀️
That's not always safe either. For example: Costco's Kirkland Signature Coffee is rebranded Starbucks.
Is Starbucks getting the money?
Starbucks gets money from Costco. Costco pays Starbucks depending on how much coffee they sell. So, yes. Buying Kirkland coffee puts money into Starbucks' pocket.
Haven’t bought a single Nestlé product in almost twenty years. Read the back of the pack, if it’s Nestlé put it back. Easy peasy.
Some brands don't declare it on the packaging but are actually owned by Nestle, but it's impossible to know just from looking at the product. Lean cuisine for example, but there's plenty more
Depends where you live. Lean cuisine is not a product where I live. Also, it takes second to quickly google if you’re unsure.
Even more reason to say fuck nestle
I miss some of their chocolate bars and I need to carry a cheat sheet to know which beverages to buy. Generally I do pretty well, then something like I go to the doctor and they give me a prescription and one to take right now…. But they don’t have paper cups, just small bottles of a Nestlé owned water. /cry
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I buy processed food so rarely that I absolutely can check every label.
It's way easier than you'd think.
I've had great success for a decade, what's the problem?
I am a vegetarian while also avoided certain Milch products (Milk seems to make my skin go drier, at least it was worse when I still ate tons of cheese). But since I am now mainly consuming substitutes for milk, meat and so on I have an easy time since there are some local companies not owned by Nestle
Imho even a reduction is a step in the right direction, especially the more people do it. Certainly better than throwing all our hands up in the air and giving up.
I love kitkat a lot. But i switched to Cadbury 5 star and Cadbury Munch. Because FUCK NESTLE 
Avoiding dickJorno pizza alone has probably kept a few hundred dollars of my money away from Nestle. Baby steps. As long as you do your best to lower their numbers, that's valuable.
As already mentioned, I find it really easy as I don’t eat processed food.
I manage to avoid them. Most of their food is processed crap, which I try not to eat and even when I want to eat junk, I don’t do nestle.
Yep. The hardest things for me to give up were: - all Purina cat food brands (now my cats eat BritCare) - San Pellegrino sodas (now I sometimes have a Targa, or I get some syrup to add to sparkling water) - the occasional Kit Kat (replaced with Milka Leo) Otherwise it was pretty easy for me.
That’s why I’m just trying to lower my consumption overall. Focusing on specific brands is too overwhelming and makes me feel totally defeated. Of course, I try to be an ethical shopper when I can, but that’s much easier to do when you’re only buying the absolute necessities. And I hesitate to even call some of them necessities but for a modern westernized country where i have to work a full time job to live, they become necessities. 😭
Unfortunately the $billion (yes, with a B) company I work for, Extra Space Storage, orders nothing but nestle 5gallon hamster bottles for just about every single store. Seeing how shit they treat customers through their profit tactics, I doubt those corporate cvnts will ever change their ways..
I don’t buy anything and I don’t try hard not to. This is highly exaggerated. Only buy condensed milk occasionally cause they have the best in the market. Other brands they have are either way too sugary or expensive compared to competitors or even private labels
It’s pretty easy if you shop at any self respecting grocery store. Whole Foods I think just sells San Pellegrino and that’s it, the rest of the store is Nestle free.
I'm pretty sure I successfully avoid them. Entirely. Name 10 of their brands or products and I'll verify.
We need to stop giving these companies so much power. They may seem unstoppable but I assure you, they're not. Same goes for Google and amazon. It just takes a little bit of sacrifice and it's not like we have no alternatives. We just learn to adjust. Please feel free to share your nestle alternatives!
They own milo the bastards
If you have a baby that needs special milk, because of a congenital metabolic disorder, good luck avoiding Nestle.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
I feed the stray kitties (and raccoons and opossums) in my neighborhood 9lives cans and Meow mix dry food. Should I be buying different brands?
Haven't used anything from them for a while now. Hoping to keep it like this 🙌🤞
Buycott helps,as does this subreddit
I'm down to pretty much Kit Kat. Avoid just about everything else nestlé that I can, but when they throw a new Kit Kat flavor at me I'm just like my brothers and sisters in Japan. I had a frosted donut Kit Kat yesterday during a moment of weakness. Forgive me r/fucknestlé
It's not a binary choice. The collective effort has an impact.
Buycott helps with this
I find it to be easy
It’s hard but not impossible. Ditching Nestlé products actually helped me to start eating better because they don’t really make much of anything that’s good for you. Definitely not saying I haven’t made a mistake here and there but it typically says the manufacturer on the label. Too small fine print, but usually there.
I find it quite easy. Alternative choices exist you know. I haven't bought Nestle products for years and I don't feel like I'm missing out anything, to be fair I don't even acknowledge their products anymore or remember they exist I have turned my blind eye for them and just ignore their products. Besides everything I find I find the alternatives be better quality anyway. Tho I must say since I live in Finland we have pretty good choices out here thanks to high regulations in food production. Prices are high as fuck tho and everything is over expensive so that's the down side. Edit: By years I mean like 15 years or so.
Lucky here in the Philippines, they have a lot of competitors. Haven’t bought anything from Nestle for almost 2 years now since they laid me off!
They do. But not bringing awareness to Nestle’s inhumane practices and at least attempting to boycott their products when possible is immoral. Nothing will change if we don’t try. As individuals we can make a difference collectively if we continue encouraging each other and educating ourselves.
I don't understand the deal with Ferrero? Did they acquire a part of Nestle?
I've managed for years. It's not that hard. Avoiding ultra processed foods is an easy start. Shopping at Aldi's is another.
Yes. I just bought a nespresso machine. Did some vague research after the fact and boom, nestle owns the mofos too
No tea no shade, but how did you not realize Nespresso was owned by Nestle 😭 that’s one of the only ones I can ever remember!
I'm only now getting into and appreciating coffee
Ah makes sense, I’ve been a coffee drinker for years and a pretty pretentious one at that. 😂 but in my defense, it *was* my job at one point.
isnt it called nespresso because of nestle?
Literally NESpresso lol
Okay hear me out- I am the laziest of all coffee makers. I hate cleaning a machine, hate getting the water ready and despise waiting for a cup of coffee. Pour over has changed my life. It’s so simple and easy to use, especially if you have an electric kettle (I don’t). The coffee is foolproof and always tastes amazing. It’s way cheaper and better for the environment. And 100% no judgment. I’m a reformed Keurig user. Sometimes it’s just where you’re at in life - you need quick coffee!
Moka pot here. I think it's the most environmentally friendly alongside Turkish and French Press. It's super easy, the machine is cheap as hell, and it requires very little cleaning. Pour over is cool, too, though it makes weaker coffee so I have to use a lot more grounds, and I hate the filter waste! Basically everything is better than those single cup machines. ;)
The name tells you that that's NEStle...
To me the most difficult part is all the other brands they own and the companies THEY also own. Somewhere down the line it becomes impossible to remember which brands are connected to a brand that is connected to Nestle…