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MP in Wimbledon tickets furore

Sue Carr
23/11/2005

GLOSSOP MP Tom Levitt has been criticised for accepting tickets to Wimbledon from Nestle - criticised for 'aggressive' marketing of baby milk to the developing world.


 

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   Nestle's assurances about its baby food marketing - and those attributed to Mr. Levitt - do not stand up to scrutiny. Nestle's is the target of an international boycott because of its aggressive marketing, which breaks international standards and contributes to the unnecessary death and suffering of infants around the world. But people in Buxton have other reasons to be concerned. As BBC Radio 4 Face the Facts reported on 22 July 2005, the Brazilian authorities ordered Nestle to paralyze activities at a well in the historic spa town of Sao Lourenco because the well had been sunk illegally and the extraction was damaging the springs on which the town's tourist industry depends. Nestle has still to comply with the order. The similar found similar concerns in the US and just this week, the environmental damage of Nestle's water extraction in Chesham, Berkshire, has been raised. A careful eye needs to be kept on this company. Last month, trade unionists from Colombia presented evidence of human rights abuses to a tribunal in Bern, Switzerland, organised by Swiss trade unions, church organisations (such as their equivalent of Christian Aid) and political parties. I encourage Nestle workers to investigate the plight of their colleagues overseas. Further information on all these topics can be found on our website http://www.babymilkaction.org/
Mike Brady, Baby Milk Action
24/11/2005 at 10:36
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