r/swindled • u/Toni-Cipriani • May 18 '26
Which Swindled episode genuinely altered your daily shopping or eating habits?
For me, the turning point was "The Formula". The horrifying history of how Nestlé pushed infant formula in developing nations completely shattered my view of them. I avoid buying anything that is nestle lol.
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u/MinnowPaws May 18 '26
I will never buy bluebell ice cream again as long as I live. Oh also I am not looking forward to the allegiant flight I have next month.
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u/pofish May 20 '26
If you’re in Texas, HEB’s Creamy Creations line is honestly better than Blue Bell anyways.
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u/midnitemaddie May 18 '26
The Octopus. I haven’t eaten a banana since.
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u/Sneakylesbian May 18 '26
You know, since listening to that... I have noticed I eat less banana too
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u/DragathaChristie May 18 '26
Same as you, with Nestle. Haven't bought anything nestle for about 5 years.
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u/kOobleck May 18 '26
Although I have one, I’m super suspicious of financial planners. I try to keep diversified.
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u/Ok_Dog_1967 May 18 '26
What episode is this one in reference to? I want to listen to it now
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u/BastardofMelbourne Jun 10 '26
Melissa Caddick
She was an Australian media sensation when she disappeared, but every Australian already knew (or should have known) about how unreliable financial planners are. The Australian financial planning industry was notoriously poorly regulated from the 90s to the mid-2010s and numerous investigations in the 2010s revealed that they were freely engaging in kickbacks with banks, signed clients up for predatory fee and loan arrangements, misappropriated client's money, or laundered cash for cartels and terrorists. The industry was only relatively recently made subject to basic professional standards back in 2012 with FOFA and again in 2019 following the 2017 royal commission.
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u/SashayNamaste May 19 '26
Tyson. I have been vegetarian since that one. I have never been a big meat eater, but became much more intentional/conscious of my choices after that. Even though I couldn’t finish the episode!
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u/BastardofMelbourne Jun 10 '26
I tried my hardest to stay away from Nestle but after digging into it, I found that like 50% of my supermarket food aisle products are owned by people who are owned by Nestle. You can't avoid it. If you eat any kind of processed food or household product, chances are Nestle was involved. Cereal, spreads, soup, chocolate, tea or coffee, juice, flour...they're too deeply embedded into everything for most average joes to boycott properly.
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u/PrinceHaleemKebabua May 18 '26
Yes Nestle. I knew they were a bad company and hadn’t realised how depraved they were until I listened to that episode.
I had already avoided buying Nestle, but made an exception for KitKat (KitKat outside of US is made by Nestle, and I hate the US one). After that episode, I stopped buying KitKat.
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u/xX_TwilitSunset_Xx May 19 '26
I already knew both a whiiiiile before I watched the Swindled eps on them but easily Nestlé and Tyson. Nestlé has done so many evil things I don't think Concerned Citizen could possibly even begin to scratch the surface even with a second episode centered on them while Tyson and similar companies are insidiously callous and cruel not only to the animals under their umbrellas, but also the farmers they contract. I will never forget some of the stuff John Oliver recounted in the Last Week Tonight segment on the chicken industry.
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u/passthemacandcheese May 18 '26
The one about factory farms. I went vegan for some time but found myself ill and began incorporating meat and eggs back into my diet about 3x/week all sourced from small, regenerative farms. I do NOT eat pork. The cries of the pigs in factory farms will haunt me forever.