Avoiding American companies to express disapproval of US policy is great. However, this could give some European companies a reprieve, whose products you should not buy despite everything, because they have an inhumane corporate policy. My favorite example is Nestle. For them, access to drinking water is not a human right and that’s how they act.

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    16 hours ago

    No, it isn’t. But Nestlé is the perfect example of a global company which shows why “BuyfromEU” might be problematic. It is based in Europe. But it also sells globally, has offices everywhere and it is owned by people in different countries. So is Nestlé a european company with this shareholder structure?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé

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      16 hours ago

      Yes, I was completely wrong. I worked in Zug at the not-America PM treasury in the 90s. There was loads of Nestle chocolate available, and other PM products, for everyone so I have a false memory.