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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that as long as you don't buy processed foods in America you should be able to easily avoid Nestle?
Not only in America. Yes, you can avoid processed food, buying fresh food, but Nestle isn't only processed food, also water, almost all brands of coffee, sweets, cosmetics, animal food, etc.. If you live on a farm with a garden and chickens, with your own well and drink an herbal infusion instead of coffee, washing with your own soap. maybe you can avoid using Nestle products.
Stop exaggerating. I live in the UK and avoid all these brands with minimal impact - drinking fresh coffee ends up being cheaper than instant, there are plenty of supermarket and non-nestle brands of sweets, dog foods, water, soap etc.
You can't avoid capitalism, but a single company, even as big as Nestlé, is very doable. It just requires a bit of mindfulness when shopping
I drink fresh coffee, never instant, But look at the Coffeebrands in my image i posted before, the most Brands are from Nestle, not only Nescafe, Same with dog/cat food, Purina, Brekkies, etc .....all from Nestle, also a lot of white brands from the Supermarkets. It's not so easy as you say.
Yeah, I did look, most of them I've never seen before. Its a big list, but it covers a worldwide range of companies - most of them are specific to only a handful of countries. For dog food I can choose Harrington's, Pedigree, Butcher's etc, for sweets there's Mars, Haribo, Barratt etc - I really get the impression that you're thinking of the Big 11 companies, which are almost impossible to wholly boycott.
White brands are a different case, but I don't even bother with off-brands of stuff Nestle makes, so I'm pretty sure I'm safe.
Around 3/4 of US adults are either overweight or obese; avoiding giving into the urge to eat processed foods is a problem all on its own