Milk and sympathy.(Nestle)

Publication: Spectator

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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)

A Cambridge geography graduate in search of solitude was recently found starving to death in a hikers' bothy in the Scottish Highlands surrounded by KitKat wrappers. No one from the anti-globalisation lobby has yet blamed the manufacturer of KitKat bars, Nestle, for causing her death, but perhaps that is just an oversight. Nestle has been blamed for just about every world nutritional problem. Last week, the company was threatened with an international boycott of its products for daring to demand 3.7 million [pounds sterling] from the Ethiopian government, in compensation for assets seized by a Marxist government in 1975. `This is absurd,' complained an Oxfam spokesman. `This is not about legal rights, it is about moral rights. When 11 million people face famine, exceptions should be made.'

In fact, Nestle wants the money in...

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