One thing is certain: the dehumanised production lines and the sight of mechanised modern food production is unlikely to pique the appetite. We all eat, and so Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s documentary about the way our food is produced on a mass scale should stir at least the beginnings of an interest in anyone who watches it. Our Daily Bread (2005, dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter) Though Nestlé sold his company in 1875 and devoted his life to philanthropy, the company that bore his name went on to become the biggest food conglomerate in the world. It was an immediate success at home and all over Europe, eventually the world. His formula consisted of cow’s milk mixed with sugar and flour. Nestlé was by now wealthy, but the foundation of his fortune was the baby milk formula he came up with in the mid 1860s, aimed at women who weren’t able to breast feed, in towns where a supply of fresh milk was difficult and infant mortality rates were high. By 1857, he had switched his attention to fertiliser and gas for lighting. It also produced alcoholic drinks, vinegar, mineral waters and soda. In 1843, he bought his way into a company involved in the synthesis of oil from rape seed. Heinrich trained and qualified as a pharmacist, changing his name to Henri Nestlé on the way, because he was now living in a French-speaking part of Switzerland and wanted to fit in. His father was a glazier and the business had been passed down the family line for five generations at least. On this day in 1814, Henri Nestlé was born, as Heinrich Nestle, in Frankfurt am Rhein, Germany.
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