I also think that the Mugabes must be one of a kind. How does one explain that all 400,000+ people who have had farms “expropirated” to them are all “Mugabe’s cronies”!?

Whilst still at it, one contributor above comaplains that most of the farms taken over have gone back to being bush, and the rest still don’t want anything to do with a productive farm, simply because it’s the Mugabes who’re are now using the farms!

As for the chap who claims to speak on behalf of the masses of Zimbabwe, you just make me sick, because you certainly do not speak for anyone, other than yourself. I am Zimbabwean and I support anyone who runs a productive venture, even if only prove that blacs are just as good farmers.

Slurping up your “….copious amounts of Grace’s so-called blood milk with my favourite brand of American Kellogs every morning….”, whilst wearing your fake Nike trainers from Taiwan and your genuine Rolex is a matter of personal choice.

For their stance to listen to the voices of reason, Nestlé Zimbabwe are on the brink of loosing their investment in the name of “Black Economic Empowerment”. It is for that reason that I will be enjoying Nestlé products once again.

If we support all the evil commercial ventures you speak of, won’t we perish as a Nation?We would become an uncaring, corrupt, exploited sick Nation.

Your assertion that “no indians are killed to make way for farming in the Amazon! “ can not go unchallenged. If anything it betrays quite a disturbing level of ignorance on your part.

Tell your ludicrous story to the Enawenê Nawê and the Guaraní tribes in remote Brazil. Tell it especially to the Akuntsu indians, whose tribe now numbers only five members due to the effects of a sustained campaign of deforestation over many generations. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/decline-of-a-tribe-and-then-there-were-five-1801795.html)

When the Peruvian government decided in June this year to enforce laws aimed at facilitating the opening up of vast tracts of the rain forest to oil drilling, logging and hydroelectric dams, well over 25 indigenous Indians died in the ensuing protest clashes (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/world/americas/06peru.html). What, you want to see pictures Dopey? http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/2009/06/bolivia-and-peru-in-war-of-words-over.html

Finally, if you are going to romanticise the idea of Indians brandishing arrows (its arrows in most instances, not guns as you put it) to defend their lives against outsiders, you need to have your head examined. For one, ask yourself this question, how did the Indians end up in the reserves anyway? Voluntarily? I don’t think so. Turn on the lights Dopey!

I do not, however, see any substance to your argument to boycott US or Australian products based on the history of their country. You are effectively punishing a generation that lives now for what their ancestors did in a different time when different rules applied. The correct analogy would be for me not to buy Grace Mugabe’s milk because because of the Nguni expansion and expulsion of the Khoisan 2000 years ago. What on earth can Grace Mugabe do about that now? Nothing at all. Your reasoning is illogical and your conclusions unfair.

I would, however, say that to boycott US products for their current incursion into Iraq is a fair option and sends a message to the generation currently engaged in the activity. In that case a boycott makes perfect sense.

Bob Mugabe violently displaced white farmers and took farms, ‘for the people of Zimbabwe’ and instead them to his wife and cronies. Grace is making personal money out of them and the people have seen nothing. That disgusts me and should have disgusted Nestle. I therefore choose to boycott their products. No BarOne for me until a population free of intimidation and violence chooses their own leader for Zimbabwe. Then Nestle will be forgiven.