Free £2.50 smoothie & 70p litre of milk!

My anti-virus software wouldn't let me install the coupon printer, said it was spyware.

harryharp wrote: »

Yes, but I believe that Nestle are INDIRECTLY responsible for these deaths, by exploiting the poor and uneducated. If they didn't aggressively market their milk, the mothers in these countries wouldn't buy it, would they? Nothing wrong with THAT logic!!!

It's common knowledge in this country that breastfeeding is best because the mother's antibodies are passed through the milk and will help to resist infections. Breastfeeding is also FREE. These are reasons enough for breastfeeding to be the only way in third world countries. But to make it worse, because of the poor sanitation in many areas and general ignorance of how to prepare the formula safely, babies not only cannot resist infection but are actually being subject to UNNECESSARY infection. Where is the logic in that?

Well I'm neither poor or uneducated and you couldn't pay me to breastfeed. It's a personal choice and one that every woman has the right to make - including those in poor countries. There are many reasons why a woman may choose not to breastfeed, for example I know several who have been unable to produce enough milk and have ended up with malnourished babies. I would imagine this problem (amongst others) is equally prevalent in the third world.

But back to the voucher, I can't make mine print so I'm going to have to give up on it anyway!

harryharp wrote: »

I was fine all the way with the smoothie voucher until on the second page of the form I discovered the brand is owned by Nestle. I have been boycotting Nestle for many years since I found out about its practice of aggressively marketing its baby milk in third world countries.

This is a quote from UNICEF regarding Nestle:

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Marketing practices that undermine breastfeeding are potentially hazardous wherever they are pursued: in the developing world, WHO estimates that some 1.5 million children die each year because they are not adequately breastfed. These facts are not in dispute."[/FONT]

I totally agree & have boycotted Nestle for many years now and not only because of their disgusting promotion of their powdered milk. Do you know about this (& more!):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2589745.stm
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080325/102185738.html
And to sum up why Nestle should be boycotted by all compassionate & caring people, http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/companies/nestle.html

Nestle only care about making money and aren't in the least bit ethical!!!
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l33tsp33k wrote: »

While it may be true that 1.5m children die each year because they are not adequately breastfed, it does not necessarily therefore follow that Nestle is responsible for the death of 1.5m children. That is broken logic, as broken as saying that the Catholic church are responsible for every AIDS death because they oppose contraception.

Anyway, back to the smoothies - their web registration form seems to block certain characters from e-mail addresses, including valid characters like a dash, which is stupid.

Mike

While Nesle can't have sole blame for these deaths, they still contribute largely to it in developing countries. I have lived in 3 African countries and have seen their marketing tactics first hand. They reward midwives in poor villages for pushing their products, giving away small sample packets of baby milk as 'aid' to get the mothers starting their newborns on formula. As recently as 2003 I've seen posters in the clinics in poorer parts of Ethiopia adverstising NAN (one of the nestle formulas) as what translates into English as best--yes, BEST for baby. Also, Nestle market their formula in tins that have all the instructions on how to mix formula safely and the token 'breastmilk is best for your baby' message only written in English, in countries where a lot of the women can't even read their own language, let alone English. It is really dangerous to allow mothers to feed their babies formula without at least making sure they have the correct mixing instructions in their own language. A ridiculous number of babies die of malnutrition every year because mothers do not know how to mix formula correctly.

Add to that the majority of mothers in poor countries do not have access to safe water and Nestle's pushing of their infant formulas on uneducated mothers becomes an even bigger recipe for disaster. UNICEF estimates that "Where water is unsafe a bottle-fed child is up to 25 times more likely to die as a result of diarrhoea than a breastfed child."

If Nestle's practices with infant formula aren't enough to put you off, why not look at their treatment of coffee and cocoa farmers in developing countries. Nestle is one of Ethiopia's biggest coffee buyers (and the Ethiopian economy relies hugely on coffee exports) yet they steadily put the price they offer coffee farmers per kilo of coffee lower and lower until the farmers were selling at a loss. In one of the worlds poorest countries! Disgusting.

Or how about the fact that they tried to sue Ethiopia for $6 million while they were in the middle of facing a famine?

Ugh. Nestle gets away with murder. I could go on and on. They are an EVIL company who put profits before ethics. I urge people to do some research on Nestle practices and think about that next time they're munching on Quality Streets or drinking Nescafe.

ScratchandSniff-->[X] wrote: »

Not accepted in Sainsbury's or Asda in Stockport Town Centre.

The customer services on the former rang up to check and were asked to scan the barcode. It didn't scan. They were asked to try the number. It didn't recognise it.

Asda took one look and said no.

It printed with no problem for me.

Also, my local Tescos were initially happy to take it, but found that the scanner wasn't happy with it, nor was it happy when they typed in the number. Then it was discovered that I was buying only the smoothie, which they have on offer at £1.99, whereas the coupon was trying to take off £2.49, which of course it couldn't do. When the supervisor figured out that this was the problem, she put it through for £1.99, and I have to say that it is very nice (went for the berry one - lovely !)