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...took about two weeks for the movement to boycott Nestle's Corporation to grow from a dining hall petition to the topic of primary debate in the Student Assembly and the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). For a while, it even looked as though the University Food Services would actually accede to the demands and stop buying Nestle's products...
Monday night, CHUL voted by a lopsided majority of 17-2, with four abstentions, to support the boycott. The movement protests Nestle's practice of supplying Third-World mothers with infant formula which they later find unaffordable or mix with bad water, causing malnutrition in their children...
Harvard students joined a nation-wide call for the boycott to protest Nestle's marketing practices in underdeveloped countries...
Weiss said he will sell the Nestle products he has in stock, but will not order any more. "I think American consumers have too little say in the products they buy, so I'd like to go along with the boycott," he said. "I'm also worried about losing business," he added...
Student government at Harvard is now in a state of flux. The new Student Assembly, created by the constitution that students ratified last spring, met last week and passed a resolution to support the Nestle's boycott. Four days later, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) also voted to recommend a boycott, with little mention of the Student Assembly vote...