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The second of an ongoing series that will take a look behind the world's largest packaged food and beverage producers. In the first episode, we took a look at global giant PepsiCo.

The Packaged Foods Exposed series places corporations in a critical light, hoping to provide a more balanced image to the advertising and PR campaigns launched by some of the most influential food corporations on the planet.

In this second episode of the Packaged Foods Exposed series, we take a look at the largest food manufacturer in the world - Nestlé. What products fall under their banner; how has their influence shaped economic policy, society and culture; how have they affected the environments they operate in; and what relationships do they foster within the countries they are located?

Guests

Karl Flecker - Education Coordinator / Director of the Water Program, Polaris Institute - Polaris is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization. Essentially, the Institute works with citizen movements in developing the kinds of strategies and tactics required to unmask and challenge the corporate power that is the driving force behind governments concerning public policy making on economic, social and environmental issues. Karl Flecker has worked with the institute for 5 years.

• Nestlé
• Nestlé Canada
• Nestlé Waters North America
• Nestlé Nutrition
• Polaris Institute
• Baby Milk Action
• Nestlé on BadCorp.org
• INFACT Canada (Nestlé Boycott)
• Michigan Land Use Institute
• Nestlé in the McSpotlight
• Responsible Shopper (Nestlé)
• Support Aamir Raza (ex-Nestlé employee in exile in Canada)
• Very Best Baby (Nestlé)
• Very Best Kids (Nestlé)
• Nestlé Baby Milk
• International Labor Rights Fund

Nestlé Products

• Nestlé Canada
• Nestlé
• INFACT Canada

Articles/Reports
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• Nestlé Corporate Profile - Polaris Institute
• "Cereal Offenders 2004" - which?
• "Cereal Reofeenders 2006" - which?
• "Nestle Taken to Court for Trafficking, Torture, and Beatings of Child Laborers on West Afican Cocoa Farms" - Global Exchange
• "GOT MILK? GOT KIDS? THEIR KIDS HEALTHY AND HAPPY WITH CHOCOLATE MILK SAYS PARENTING COACH" - Nestle Canada
• "Breast-fed babies less likely to be obese later" - Harvard University Gazette
• "Nestle position on the published European GMO Legislation" - Nestle
• "Greeenpeace and Nestle clash over GM coffee" - Agnet
• "Greenpeace protests against Nestle’s double standards on genetically engineered food" - Greenpeace
• "Nestlé reported to UK Advertising Standards Authority over dishonest Fairtrade product advertisement" - Organic Consumers Association
• "Nestle Picks Northeast Arkansas for $165 Million, 1,000-Employee Plant - Online Insider
• "Campaigning for a Healthier America" (Gov. Mike Huckabee) - Newsweek
• "Nestlé Using Deadly Labels in South Asia" - INFACT Canada
• "Slave Chocolate?" - Forbes
• Business and the Holocaust - Stock Maven
• "Fair Trade has spirtual roots" - The Manilla Times