NESTLÉ

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Henri Nestlé and the Baby Bottle
3. Chapter Two - Mergers, Milk, and Multinationals
4. Chapter Three - The Baby Formula Wars Begin
5. Chapter Four - Breast Is Best (And They Knew It)
6. Chapter Five - Buying the World’s Candy Aisle
7. Chapter Six - Cocoa, Child Labor, and the Ivory Coast
8. Chapter Seven - The Obesity Pipeline
9. Chapter Eight - The Science of Addictive Food
10. Chapter Nine - The Bottled Water Heist
11. Chapter Ten - The Michigan Backlash
12. Chapter Eleven - Nespresso and the Caffeine Empire
13. Chapter Twelve - Fair Trade or Fair Game?
14. Chapter Thirteen - Feeding the Third World (On Credit)
15. Chapter Fourteen - Lawsuits and Labeling
16. Chapter Fifteen - How to Be Everywhere at Once
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Machine Keeps Running
18. Chapter Seventeen - The Quietest Superpower on Earth

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU’VE SEEN THE name before. It’s on your water bottle, your chocolate bar, and your instant coffee. It’s stamped onto formula cans, tucked into snack wrappers, and printed on the side of a thousand cereal boxes, but half the time, you don’t even notice. That’s the point. Nestlé isn’t some fringe brand. It’s the most consumed food company on Earth. It owns nearly 2,000 brands across almost every country on the planet. It operates in baby food and bottled water, frozen meals and pet care, instant soup and plant-based milk. It helped industrialize formula feeding, revolutionized candy marketing, and turned coffee into a luxury subscription model. All while facing protests, lawsuits,...