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Nestle Scraps Milk Deal With Mugabe Farms

Critics threatened company boycott over 'blood milk'

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(Newser) – Nestle will stop buying milk from Zimbabwean farms seized by the wife of Robert Mugabe after human rights advocates called for an international boycott of the Swiss conglomerate's products. The leader of a South African right group tells the Telegraph he's happy Nestle was giving up "blood milk." Grace Mugabe took control of the farms after the original white owners were forced out.

Nestle insisted that it purchased directly from Mugabe's land only on a temporary arrangement as Zimbabwe's dairy industry collapsed—part of a wider agricultural and economic disaster brought on by land seizures and economic mismanagement. A Nestle official acknowledged "a fair amount of international pressure, particularly in the UK and in South Africa," on the issue.

President Robert Mugabe talks to his wife Grace, at the launch of his party's manifesto and campaign in Harare, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008.
President Robert Mugabe talks to his wife Grace, at the launch of his party's manifesto and campaign in Harare, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace arrive at the swearing in ceremony for South Africa's president Jacob Zuma in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, May 10, 2009.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace arrive at the swearing in ceremony for South Africa's president Jacob Zuma in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, May 10, 2009.   (AP Photo/Jerome Delay,Pool)
First lady of Zimbabwe Grace Mugabe attends a meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. She controls several farms seizing during controversial land reforms.
First lady of Zimbabwe Grace Mugabe attends a meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. She controls several farms seizing during controversial land reforms.   (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Michael_CT
Oct 2, 09 8:48 AM CDT
its sad that it takes a media exposure to curb their dealings with the 'African Hitler'. shame on Nestle. Reply
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riffran
Oct 2, 09 6:53 PM CDT
yes yes yes...couldn't happen to a more deserving bitch..now Lady, maybe you can give that surplus to the starving masses you and hubby have fuc** over Reply
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pete_ess
Oct 3, 09 5:02 AM CDT
We must, of course, forget that those farms (and cattle and and) were seized from the Matebele and Ndebele people who were living in Zimbabwe at the time whites first decided to take over under Cecil Rhodes. All that must be forgotten, but we must HOWL in protest that Mugabe "stole" the land from white farmers! What Mugabe did was disgusting, AS WAS what the early white colonials did. Callous, murderous and thieving behaviour in triumph is not only a Mugabe trait Reply
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