McDonald’s has been one focus for resistance, for example through a well-publicized libel trial of two members of London Greenpeace from 1992-97, with the judge finding for McDonald’s on 5 issues, but for the defendants on three; and in February 2005 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that their rights were violated when they were refused legal aid. Nestle’s has been targeted by an extended boycott because of its misleading marketing of baby milk in Africa.
Local resistance to Coca Cola, and to Nestle’s bottled water plants. for their excessive and sometimes illegal use of water supplies is covered under ‘water privatization ‘, A.7.a.