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Nestle stops buying Mugabe farm milk
AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/2/09 | AP

Posted on 10/02/2009 9:20:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

JOHANNESBURG – Nestle says it will stop buying milk from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife's farm after facing worldwide boycott threats.

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Internet boycott calls had followed reports in Britain's Telegraph that Nestle was buying Mugabe's milk. The Telegraph reported that the farm's former owner, who is white, sold the farm after a campaign of violence.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: milk; mugabe; nestle

1 posted on 10/02/2009 9:20:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

They buy milk from Africa? Or is the Eurpoean branch?


2 posted on 10/02/2009 9:26:11 AM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: NormsRevenge

“The Telegraph reported that the farm’s former owner, who is white, sold the farm after a campaign of violence”.

...he got to sell? I thought most of these guys were forced off with violence and NO offering.


3 posted on 10/02/2009 9:26:52 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

That’s if they didn’t “sell” at some ridiculously low price. Jews in Germany “sold” their businesses to Germans just before being deported to Auschwitz. It is amazing how dictatorial regimes still go through the motions of “law and order.”


4 posted on 10/02/2009 9:29:04 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: NormsRevenge
haven't heard anything from that silly stay behind white woman what voted for that magoober in awhile... maybe she finally got wise and left.
5 posted on 10/02/2009 9:34:45 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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