“This is not speculation but econometric fact — the company’s market entry correlates directly with this surge in infant deaths. The data does not lie”
Okay I’m done here lmao someone skipped stats 101
“Correlation means causation.”
Isn’t that the saying you learned?
Yeah. A rise in infant formula use and infant mortality are incredibly different things that couldn’t possibly be linked in the data. Good take. /s
Yeah, but that needs to be proven beyond coincidence.
I bought a jar of Nescafe recently, because my usual instant decaf coffee was out of stock. I wonder if people would hate me more for buying a Nestle product, or drinking instant decaf?
“Please hate both transgressions equally.” ~ Gemma
Instant decaf. You want the coffee flavor, it’s quicker and less hassle, and you’re sensitive to or just don’t want the caffeine. Am I right? Seems reasonable.
Coffee snobs are funny. I drink instant but I need that caffeine in my brain.
Dude I’m right there with you man
All of thankfully I’ve been able to get the new Folgers freeze-dried whatever. They don’t advertise it is different than their instant coffee. But it mixes cold a lot better than the old stuff
So I’m Nestle free again
And you can be too! if you want. No judgment here the fucking brand is endemic and in so many products
I have to buy purina wet food because it’s the only one my cat accepts and she can’t be without wet food because she refuses to drink water. I’ve try to offer other brands from time to time but no, only this fucking thing
The unfortunate thing is the taste is unchanged no matter what nestle did. My wife told me not to buy Fair Life milk products because they abuse the animals. It felt so wrong, but tasted so much better to drink their chocolate milk. That being said, it isn’t always better to save money and buy the cheaper brand, than give up some more money trying to support a small business. However, we never know whether that small business will be the next nestle. It’s hard to pick these battles but separate the product from the ones who make it.
Well we can"t know wheter the little brand we choose will be the next Nestle, but this is a thing we shouldn’t exactly worry too much about. Following this reasonment, I should kill every person I meet around, because you never know who they are going to be in the future… I think someone who knows the truth and still continues to buy from a certain brand because “it is better”, though knowing there exist more ethical alternatives, that person is just a most horrible kind of creature, not even a human being, from a purely philosopical and psychological point of view. Don’t take it personal, I don’t know what your decisions has been finally.
Choosing not to give money to someone you do not know is not quite the same thing as murdering them.
No, my point was if it is cheaper to buy the name brand vs the small business that charges more, ethics is less the question and more about separating the product from the creators, just like I separate the artist from the art. There are terrible celebrities who have made good music, what changes about the music, what changes about the product, your knowledge of it. But the product itself is still as it was, your perception of [the creator] is just different. Would you stop paying for recycled plastic if you knew it was once someone’s trash. Ethics is about treating people better. I don’t sit there and think, at the store, let me see who I can support today. No, I buy my groceries like a normal person and look for the deal. I am trying to save money. But that being said, although I still bought fair life, I bought it less after knowing that fact, it still influenced my decision and it was a little more expensive, I liked the taste. But coming down on people for what they support is just as wrong as supporting the thing itself.
