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No Nestlé Halloween

As Halloween is fast-approaching, you may be thinking about what kinds of treats you’ll have available for the trick-or-treaters in your neighborhood. Now, maybe you don’t give out treats (the Mom-side of me thanks you for your pretzels, fruit leathers, pencils, stickers, or pennies for Unicef!). But if you do offer candy, you may want to consider keeping Nestlé treats out of your trick-or-treat bowl this year.

(Image source: http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/10/25/international-nestle-free-week-2010-join-us/)

Why No Nestle? A very short synopsis: there has been an active boycott on Nestle since July 7^th 1977, stemming from their promotion of breastmilk substitutes (infant/baby formula) over breastfeeding, particularly in under-developed countries. Nestlé continues to violate the WHO (World Health Organization) code by persisting in their marketing of infant formula in places where doing so (instead of promoting breastfeeding) can lead to illness, malnutrition, and death of babies (for reasons such as formula mixed with contaminated water is dangerous, formula is too expensive for many women to purchase, and often gets watered down, resulting in malnutrition). Nestlé also controls much of the bottled water industry (and thus the sources of water) in the United States. (If you’re ready to be frightened by the state of water in our country, I highly recommend the movie Tapped) Nestlé also promotes unhealthy eating through their production and marketing of high-sodium “Gerber Graduates” processed foods to toddlers.

For more information on the Nestlé boycott, here are some good places to start:

http://info.babymilkaction.org/nestlefree

http://www.phdinparenting.com/tag/nestle-boycott/

http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/

So, you'd like to try to keep your Halloween Nestlé- free, but not sure which products Nestlé produces? Well… take a deep breath; they’re everywhere (I'd rather not directly link to their site, but if you Google Nestlé, you can find everything they have their name on - and it's a ton)! For the purpose of International Nestlé-Free Week (which runs from October 31^st thru November 6th) I’ve created a list, limited strictly to candy.

List of Nestlé Candies, Chocolates, and Confections:

100 Grand

Aero Bar

Abuelita

Baby Ruth

Bit O Honey

Bottle Caps

Butterfinger

Cailler

Carlos V

Chewy Spree

Chewy Sweetarts

Chunky

Crunch Bar

Everlasting Gobstoppers

Fruit Runts

Goobers

Kazoozles

Kit Kat (outside of the U.S.)

Laffy Taffy

Lik-M-Aid Fun Dip

Mix Ups

Nerds

Nestle Milk Chocolate

Nips

Oh Henry! (inside the U.S.)

Oompas

Orion

Pixy Stix

Raisinets

Runts

Shockers

Smarties (outside of the U.S.)

Sno-Caps

Spree

Sweetarts

Wonka Exceptionals

So… Which candies CAN you buy this year?

My vote is for Fair-Trade Organic Chocolate or Organic Lollipops! Of course, that’s not always practical nor affortable! So, here’s a list of...

Conventional Candies NOT Produced by Nestlé:

3 Musketeers

Almond Joy

Bounty

Bubble Yum

Cadbury Crème Egg

Cadbury Dairy Milk

Dagoba

Dove Bar

Galaxy

Good & Fruity

Good & Plenty
Heath Bar

Hershey’s Kisses

Hershey’s Special Dark

Ice Breakers Gum

Jolly Rancher

Kit Kat (inside the U.S.)

Krackel

Mars Bar

Marathon

Mauna Loa

Milk Duds

Milky Way

Mini Eggs

M&M’s

Mounds

Mr. Goodbar

Oh Henry (outside of the U.S.)

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Reese’s Pieces

Rolo

Skittles
Smarties (inside the U.S.)
Snickers
Starburst

Summit

Symphony Bar

Take 5

Twix

Twizzlers

Whatchamacallit

Wrigley’s Gum

York Peppermint Patty

Zagnut

Zero

Thanks for considering participating in Nestlé-Free Week and... Happy Halloween!

Posted: Oct 28 2011, 09:59 by kelly | Comments (28)

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Comments

Selena said:

THANK YOU SO MUCH. As a mom of super allergic kidlet I was getting worried about any peanut free options. We usually do willy wonka candy, smarties, sweet tarts , but the way you finished up with alternatives YAY !!! We trade allergy unsafe candy for allergy free/ along with non food treats and candy won't be a nestle brand !!

# October 28 2011, 14:31

nadja said:

We shall be giving out fun-size packages of Annie's Organic Bunny Gummies. My kids love them at least.

# October 28 2011, 15:32

Serena said:

Thank you for this list. It really helps. I don't want to rain on anyone's shorter-chocolate-list parade, but I recently read this: www.good.is/.../ And, well, if we're boycotting Nestle for good reason, it might be good to go all out with the chocolate.

# October 28 2011, 15:34

Lori said:

Ironic, that my top ad on the side of this post is about selling Nestle water.....! Thanks for the list!

# October 28 2011, 16:43

Lera said:

Thanks for this post. Also, add Heath Bars to your list of non-Nestle candy . . . they not owned by Nestle!

# October 28 2011, 16:57

kelly @kellynaturally said:

@Lori - thank you for letting me know! I've been working on that issue since publishing this today.

# October 28 2011, 16:58

Liz said:

I feel like after reading this article and this one I'm posting I am boycotting all candy except organic local. So sad.

www.good.is/.../

# October 28 2011, 17:00

Liz said:

Oh, just noticed someone already posted that article. Sorry for the repeat.

# October 28 2011, 17:02

Sarah said:

How's it work that some of names are ok inside or outside the US but not the other way around? Nestle seriously doesn't have their grubby hands in it on both sides?

# October 28 2011, 17:58

Melina Ramirez said:

I would urge you all to read this report

www.laborrights.org/.../HersheyReport2010_0.pdf

Before thinking Hersey's is a better option.

# October 28 2011, 18:12

Jocelyn said:

Libby's (canned pumpkin) is a Nestle brand! Might want to add that to your list for holiday avoidance.

# October 28 2011, 18:20

kelly @kellynaturally said:

@Liz @Serena - Thank you for that link. Personally, we don't eat much candy at home, and when we do, we try to buy only organic & fair trade (coffee as well). But I also realize that we are fortunate to be able to have access to those options; many people don't have that option - particularly around Halloween - when the expectation is to provide a lot of candy for a lot of kids, for a little bit of money.

It certainly is worth considering though, at any time of year, the impact our decisions and purchases can have on our entire world. Thank you again for sharing the link.

# October 28 2011, 20:31

kelly @kellynaturally said:

@Sarah - that's a good question. In some cases it's a naming issue (some candy, like Smarties, hold the same name, but are entirely different products), in some cases, it's a licensing issue. For example, Kit Kat - Hershey's holds the license to the name & manufacturing in the US, but it's a Nestle product elsewhere. (info from Wiki en.wikipedia.org/.../Kit_Kat So, in the case of Kit Kat, I don't believe Nestle has any say in the marketing/distribution/sales of the US product.

# October 28 2011, 20:38

kelly @kellynaturally said:

@Lera - I added Heath Bar to the list. Thanks for the tip!

# October 28 2011, 20:40

beatriz said:

we have boycotted nestle for years. they own EVERYTHING it seems like at times. I miss one of my favorite candies - shock tarts - but it is so worth it!

# October 28 2011, 23:32

Luschka said:

Okay, one of you US folks is going to HAVE to send me some non-Nestle Smarties!!! I MISS Smarties!!!

# October 29 2011, 07:25

Christine said:

You missed an important one on your list of Nestle products: Coffee Crisp. No pretending that it's not problematic just because it's the good stuff.

# October 29 2011, 19:11

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Clare Kirkpatrick said:

Thanks for this informative post. It's always great to read well-written stuff about the Nestle boycott - so many people don't understand it! I've shared it on my weekly links post today: http://wp.me/p1B5NK-my