Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some dining halls do not offer Nestle iced tea because Nestle's machines are broken or have been removed, Philip R. Bauer, food buyer for the University, said yesterday...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Infant Formula Coalition has collected about 1000 signatures on a petition this week calling on the University to boycott Nestle products, but dining hall managers said yesterday consumption of Nestle iced tea has not declined since the student boycott began last week...
Coalition members urged students not to drink Nestle's iced tea, which is available in ten of the University dining halls...
...boycott of Nestle products could be an important first step towards mobilizing public opinion against infant formula. All students should sign the petitions; and students should neither use Nestle products like iced tea now in the dining halls nor buy Nestle products on their own. Likewise, the Harvard administration should abandon the lame excuses it has offered before--that boycotts represent an unacceptable moral stand by a university--when students have urged other product boycotts in the past. Students have a good chance to send an important message to the multinationals and the American government to subservient to their wishes...
Mokhtar's large family, like millions of others, survives only because of price subsidies that keep down the cost of seven basic products: wheat, flour, sugar, rice, tea, vegetable oil and butane gas, which is used for cooking...