endorsers list

October 2003

UK supporters of the Nescafé boycott SESAME WHOLEFOODS (York) FIRST BORN NAPPIES SUMA (Halifax) THE FLAVOURY FESTIVAL CATERERS HARVEST WHOLEFOODS (Bath) BUSINESSES SUNBURST NATURAL FOODS (London) GLOBAL EXCHANGE (Norwich) HARVEST MOON WHOLEFOOD (Hitchin Wholefood businesses: SUNFLOWER WHOLEFOODS (Bedford) GREEN & BLACK'S (Chocolate company) and Hereford) AARDVARK WHOLEFOODS (Carmarthen) TRINITY WHOLEFOODS (Hastings) HATTERS RESTAURANT (Hitchin) HERB GARDEN CAFE ABUNDANCE NATURAL FOODS (Kilburn) VEGANOMICS (London) HUNGRY MONKEY YOGHURT CO. HIGHLAND WHOLEFOODS (Inverness) ADDYMAN BOOKS (Hay-on-Wye) VEGEBILITY (West Kirby) HOUGHTON & NEVILL (Stroud) Chemist HUNZA WHOLEFOODS (Brentford) AHIMSA (Malvern) THE WHOLEFOOD SHOP (Frome) INTERACT Catering to the Body Shop HYSON GREEN WHOLEFOODS ALARA WHOLEFOODS (London) THE WHOLEFOOD STORE (Glastonbury) JAI’S (Wellingborough) Grocery (Nottingham) ANGEL FOOD (Tiverton) WHOLE HEALTH (Shrewsbury) LEEDS ANIMATION WORKSHOP INFINITY FOODS (Brighton) WHOLESOME (London) LEEDS POSTCARDS AQUARIAN BASICS (Nottingham) LEICESTER WHOLEFOOD CO-OP WHOLESOME TRUCKING (London) AQUARIUS (London) MANDELA WHOLEFOODS (Newcastle) LIMITED RESOURCES (Manchester) WILD OATS (London) ARJUNA (Cambridge) MARIGOLD HEALTH FOODS (London) LONGDEN GREEN GENERAL STORE WILD OATS (Nottingham & Mansfield) (Shrewsbury) BARLEYCORN WHOLEFOOD (Eccles) MISTLETOE FARM HEALTHFOODS BEANO'S WHOLEFOODS (Matlock Bath) (Willingham) WINDMILL WHOLEFOODS (Liverpool) METAMORPHOSIS (Leeds theatre company) BUMBLE BEE NATURAL FOODS (London) THE MUSTARD SEED (Whitby) Other businesses: OLIVE BRANCH (Marple) Coffee shop CANTERBURY WHOLEFOODS NATURAL CHOICE (Ashbourne) ABC ESTATES (Manchester) Estate agents DANIEL FIELD (Gwent) Hairdressing Retail COMMUNITY FOODS (London) NATURAL FOOD STORES (Leeds) AQUAID (Cambridge) POPCORN IN THE PARK (London) COOKS DELIGHT (Berkhamstead) NATURAL LIFE (Cranleigh, Surrey) ARCHES HOTEL (Bristol) RAFFLES (Wirksworth) Restaurant CRABAPPLE (Shrewsbury) NEW ROOTS (Sheffield) BAKEHOUSE RESTAURANT (nr. March) RAYMOND TOMLINSON ANTIQUES DROP IN THE OCEAN (Coventry) ON THE 8th DAY (Manchester) BUCKINGHAM PET FOODS (Wetherby) ESSENTIAL WHOLEFOODS (Bristol) PLANET ORGANIC (London) CAPTAIN'S CATCH RESTAURANT (Hitchin) SHOCKING PINK Women’s Magazine EVERGREEN WHOLEFOODS (Dewsbury) PLOUGHSHARES (Glastonbury) CHANDNI CHOWK (Credition, Devon) SUNSET CAFE FIRST SEASON (Whitby) PLOUGHSHARES (Wellingborough) DELTA T DEVICES LTD (Cambs) The MOTHER MAGAZINE FOOD FOR ALL (London) PULSE WHOLEFOOD CO-OP (Swindon) EARTHLY GOODS (Huntingdon) THE PLAYHOUSE BAR, Norwich FOOD FOR THOUGHT (Ilford) RAINBOW CENTRE (Nottingham) TRAIDCRAFT GREEN CITY WHOLEFOODS (Glasgow) RAINBOW WHOLEFOODS (Norwich) EQUAL EXCHANGE WILLIOW NURSERY (Barnham) GREEN EARTH WHOLEFOODS (London) RENAISSANCE (Eastbourne) EXPECTING CHANGES (Glasgow) WOODSETTON DESIGN (Wolverhampton) “I commend the baby milk issue to the concern of all members of the diocese... Boycotting the products of firms that continue this practice is a positive form of protest. It is right for Christians to take this matter to heart and speak out against it.” The Bishop of Leicester FAITH GROUPS HEALTH GROUPS ASSOCIATION Forth Valley WEST YORKS TIMBLE HOUSING PROJECT SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE HEALTH WEST YORKS YOUTH ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE OF BAPTIST YOUTH ABM (Association of Breastfeeding Mothers) PROMOTION SERVICE WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY AIMS (Association for the Improvement of SOUTH LANCASHIRE HEALTH WOMEN (Leeds) BAPTIST UNION Maternity Services) AUTHORITY WOMEN’S COUNSELLING & THREAPY BATTERSEA CHURCHES HOUSING TRUST ARM (Association of Radical Midwives) THE WEALDEN CLINIC (Tunbridge Wells) SERVICE Leeds BURNLEY LANE BAPTIST CHURCH Burnley COMMUNITY NUTRITION GROUP of the WOMEN’S ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK CANTERBURY BAHHAIS British Dietetic Association WOMEN’S HEALTH & REPRODUCTIVE CATHOLIC STUDY CIRCLE FOR ANIMAL COMPASS Liverpool CONSUMER GROUPS RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTRE WELFARE ESSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL Health ANIMAL AID NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S Promotion Unit BELLE ISLE COMMUNITY CENTRE (Leeds) CHRIST CHURCH Chesterfield INSTITUTES HEALTH VISITORS’ ASSOCIATION BRITISH ASIANS ASSOCIATION Leeds CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COMMISSION THE WOODCRAFT FOLK HOSPITAL ALERT Canterbury CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU Leeds supported the boycott in Contact YORKSHIRE DANCE CENTRE TRUST CHURCH HOUSING ASSOCIATION Leeds KENT SCHOOL NURSE GROUP COLNE VALLEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU CHURCH OF SCOTLAND Department of MATERNITY ALLIANCE EAST LEEDS WOMEN’S WORKSHOPS Communication MENCAP Haringey ECRA (Ethical Consumer Research LOCAL AUTHORITIES CHURCH OF THE MARTYRS Leicester MIDIRS (Midwives Information & Association) BOURNEMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL CHURCH IN WALES sold its Nestlé shares Resources Service) FAVERSHAM WOMEN’S GROUP CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL CHRISTIAN ETHICAL INVESTMENT GROUP MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY GROUP Leeds THE FOOD COMMISSION DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL 'supports FELLOWSHIP OF UNITED REFORMED NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE the aims of the baby milk campaign'... CHURCH YOUTH NATIONAL PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY MANAGEMENT LTD as does GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL JUSTICE & PEACE COMMISSION Local UNIT (Oxford) HALL LANE COMMUNITY CENTRE (Leeds) GREENWICH BOROUGH COUNCIL groups ROYAL COLLEGE OF MIDWIVES (Wales, INNER WHEEL CLUB OF AYR HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL LEEDS ISLAMIC MOVEMENT Tonbridge and District & Greenwich INNER WHEEL CLUB OF GLASGOW KILMARNOCK & LOUDOUN DISTRICT LEICESTER DIOCESAN SYNOD branches) LAMBETH TUC UNEMPLOYED CENTRE COUNCIL METHODIST CHURCH SCOTTISH HEALTH VISITORS' LEAGUE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL MUSLIM WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION Leeds Leeds LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL OXFORD DIOCESAN SYNOD “The NCT is pleased to LEEDS GREEN UMBRELLA NORTH BEDS BOROUGH COUNCIL REFORM SYNAGOGUES GB Youth, LEEDS WOMEN’S CENTRE NORTON RADSTOCK TOWN COUNCIL Students & Young Adults join the Nestlé boycott as LEICESTER MOTHERS’ UNION OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS a sign of its outrage LOWER WORTLEY COMMUNITY ASSO- SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL CIATION (Leeds) SHREWSBURY & ATCHAM BOROUGH (QUAKERS) Wythenshawe against a company which SISTERS OF MERCY UK PUDSEY ESPERANTO SOCIETY COUNCIL ST LLEURWG’S CHURCH Hirwaun continues to put a higher RED ROPE Socialist Walkers & Climbers TODMORDEN TOWN COUNCIL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH value on commercial ST. PANCRAS HOUSING ASSOCIATION WEST LOTHIAN DISTRICT COUNCIL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (WALES) SOROPTOMISTS INTERNATIONAL LEEDS CITY COUNCIL Health, Women’s WORLD FEDERATION OF METHODIST profits than babies’ (Tiverton) and Race Equality Sub-Committees WOMEN supported the boycott in Ma g n e t health and well-being.” TOWER HAMLETS COMMUNITY OXFORD CITY COUNCIL Health Committee ORGANISATIONS FORUM YOUNG CHRISTIAN WORKERS The National Childbirth Trust TRADE UNIONS HILTON DAWSON MP “Nothing could be more important for future generations BRIAN DONOHOE MP JIM DOWD MP than the way young babies are fed. I am encouraging all UN I S O N JULIA DROWN MP our supporters in the Labour movement not to buy MSF (Manufacturing, Science & Finance) BARBARA FOLLETT MP FIRE BRIGADES UNION Nescafé until Nestlé stops undermining breastfeeding.” GEORGE FOULKES MP PCS (Public and Commercial Services) Glenys Kinnock MEP, Chair of One World NEIL GERRARD MP CSP (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy) WIN GRIFFITHS MP SWANSEA UNIVERSITY NIPSA (Northern Ireland Public Servants EDUCATION GROUPS JOHN HEPPELL MP TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY Association) NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS GEOFFREY HOON MP TRINITY & ALL SAINTS COLLEGE (Leeds) BRISTOL TRADES UNION COUNCIL NUS Women's Campaign STEPHEN HUGHES MEP TRINITY COLLEGE (Carmarthen) DONCASTER & DISTRICT TUC NUS WALES Women's Campaign GLENDA JACKSON MP UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER AT COLERAINE PROSPECT, Museum of London branch MATURE STUDENTS UNION HELEN JACKSON MP UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, London BRIGHTON, HOVE & DISTRICT TRADES Student Unions: WADHAM COLLEGE, Oxford UNION COUNCIL ANN KEEN MP WARWICK UNIVERSITY SOUTHWARK TRADES COUNCIL CHARLES KENNEDY MP ABERDEEN COLLEGE WEST OF ENGLAND, UNIVERSITY OF SWTUC (South West Trade Union GLENYS KINNOCK (MEP) ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY WESTMINSTER INSTITUTE (Oxford) Congress) ARCHY KIRKWOOD MP BANGOR UNIVERSITY CALUM MACDONALD MP BATH UNIVERSITY WOLVERHAMPTON UNIVERSITY DAVID MARTIN MEP BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY YORK UNIVERSITY BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY “It is vital that new mothers should be given the BRADFORD UNIVERSITY Other Education groups: best possible advice. This should definitely include CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY THE ACTUAL WORKSHOP (London) the promotion of breastfeeding as the best possible CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, UNIVERSITY OF BURNHAM YOUTH CENTRE (Slough) start for their babies. It is iniquitous that CHELTENHAM & GLOUCESTER COLLEGE CHILTERN & SOUTH BUCKS YOUTH multinationals, of which Nestlé is a prime example, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, Cambridge COUNCIL COVENTRY UNIVERSITY CHAPELTOWN NURSERY (Leeds) should ride roughshod over the International Code CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY DITTON FIELDS NURSERY (Cambridge) in order to increase their profits. Please join the DERBY UNIVERSITY FOREST SCHOOL CAMPS worldwide boycott against Nestlé.” DE MONTFORD UNIVERSITY GAMESLEY YOUTH CENTRE (Glossop) Julie Walters DURHAM UNIVERSITY LEEDS METRO UNIVERSITY Refectory EAST ANGLIA,UNIVERSITY OF LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH GROUP (Burnley) JOHN D McWILLIAM MP POLITICAL PARTIES & EAST LONDON,UNIVERSITY OF LONG ROAD SIXTH FORM COLLEGE CHRIS MULLIN MP POLITICIANS EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY (Cambridge) JOYCE QUIN MP ESSEX UNIVERSITY MOORLANDS COLLEGE, Christchurch THE GREEN PARTY MEL READ MEP EXETER COLLEGE ST. EDMUND’S SCHOOL Wolverhampton GREEN PARTY STUDENTS GEOFFREY ROBINSON MP EXETER UNIVERSITY THE WOODCRAFT FOLK NATIONAL ORGANISATION OF MARTIN SALTER MP LABOUR STUDENTS GLAMORGAN UNIVERSITY THE WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY CHRIS SMITH MP THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT GLASGOW UNIVERSITY UKPLAYWORKERS THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HERTFORDSHIRE, UNIVERSITY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRAT YOUTH AND NGO’s / CHARITIES HOMERTON COLLEGE, Cambridge CELEBRITIES STUDENTS CND South Cheshire & North Staffs HULL UNIVERSITY AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM BROMLEY CO-OP PARTY CANTERBURY CAMBODIA SUPPORT IMPERIAL COLLEGE London ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION LEEDS HUMANISTS CATHOLIC INSTITUTE FOR KENT INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN FRANCESCA ANNIS (Actress) SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KENT UNIVERSITY PADDY ASHDOWN THE LABOUR LIFE GROUP CHILE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Leeds KEELE UNIVERSITY JANE ASHER (Actress) CAT SURVIVAL TRUST, THE EARTH AND KINGS COLLEGE, Cambridge BRIAN BALL (Author) Constituency Labour Parties: THE MISSION RAINFOREST KINGS COLLEGE London TONY BENN CENTRAL SUFFOLK FOUNDATION LADY MARGARET HALL, Oxford JEAN BOHT (Actress) GOVAN CHRISTIAN AID Canterbury LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MELVIN BURGESS (Author) PRESTON CRED Christian Relief Education and LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY JULIE CHRISTIE (Actress) SHEFFIELD DISTRICT Development LEEDS UNIVERSITY NOAM CHOMSKY SPARKBROOK Women’s Section DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENT LIMERICK UNIVERSITY STEVE COOGAN (Comedian) SOUTH TWICKENHAM CENTRE (Norwich) LIVERPOOL, JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY DEREK COOPER (Broadcaster) STOKE BRANCH, PLYMOUTH DORSET PEACE COUNCIL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY ANNE LORNE GILLIES (Folk singer) TOTTENHAM EARTH FIRST! Gwynedd UNIVERSITY OF LONDON RICHARD E. GRANT (Actor) LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY GERMAINE GREER (Author) MP’s & MEP’s FRIENDS OF THE EARTH MAGDALEN COLLEGE, Oxford SHEILA HANCOCK (Actress) GRAHAM ALLEN MP HALIFAX THIRD WORLD GROUP MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PAT KANE (Singer with rock band Hue & Cry) RICHARD BALFE MEP HEALTHLINK WORLDWIDE NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY FELICITY KENDALL (Actress) JOHN BATTLE MP ISLE OF WIGHT PEACE COUNCIL JERUSALEM & PEACE SERVICE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY PENELOPE LEACH (Author) ALAN BEITH MP LEEDS DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY RUTH MADOC (Actress) DAVID BLUNKETT MP CENTRE OXFORD UNIVERSITY THE MAN FROM DEL MONTE (Rock Band) DAVID BORROW MP NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY RIK MAYALL (Actor) ANNE CAMPBELL MP ONE WORLD QUEEN MARY & WESTFIELD COLLEGE MICHEL ODENT (Childbirth specialist) ANN CLWYD MP OUT OF THE BLUE Theatre trust QUEENS UNIVERSITY, Belfast PHILIPPA PEARCE(author) “I think it is incomprehen- PENWITH GREEN CENTRE (Penzance) ST ANDREW’S UNIVERSITY TONY ROBINSON (Actor) GERALD SCARFE (Cartoonist) sible and despicable that PEOPLE AND PLANET ST ANNE’S COLLEGE, Oxford CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY (Actor) READING INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ST DAVID’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE a major multinational RICKY TOMLINSON (Actor) CENTRE (RISC) ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE, Oxford company like this should EMMA THOMPSON (Actress) SAVE THE CHILDREN supports the boycott ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, Oxford SPARE TYRE (Theatre Company) be ignoring world and has asked shops not to stock Nestlé SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY TRASH CAN SINATRAS (Rock Band) opinion. They must be fundraising chocolate. SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY MARK THOMAS (Comedian/journalist) SPEAK campaign and prayer organisation SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, Oxford made to realise that the JULIE WALTERS (Actress) THEATRE BABEL SOUTH DOWNS COLLEGE pursuit of profits, with ZOE WANAMAKER (Actress) UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY VICTORIA WOOD (Comedian) so little regard for the WAR ON WANT CAMPAIGNS SUNDERLAND UNIVERSITY health and welfare of WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT “Europe’s largest food company has forgotten why WORLD VISION UK infants is intolerable.” humans need food. Instead of providing food for Derek Cooper, Broadcaster and President nourishment and health, they are promoting unnec- of the Guild of Food Writers essary products for profit. Tim Lobstein, The Food Commission