I know some of you do support the boycott as it's been mentioned on this site. Today The Body Shop has been bought by L'Oreal so it seems The Body Shop has joined the list of companies/products under the boycott. Nestle holds 26.4% of L'Oreal.
The Nestle boycott exists because of their violation of The World Health Organisation (WHO) marketing code for baby milk. The WHO estimates that 1.5 million infants die around the world every year because they are not breastfed. 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.
That is why a marketing code was introduced in 1981 to regulate the marketing of breastmilk substitutes. Companies continue to violate its provisions e.g Nestle hiring doctors to sit in supermarkets in China to promote formula to pregnant customers and mothers with children.
Here's a link to the Baby Milk Action website for more info.
http://www.babymilkaction.org/press/press17march06.htmlChoosing to support this boycott is not something the baby whisperer site officially supports or doesn't support - it's entirely up to the individual.