Suruthi
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1,385 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Suruthi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The glass man.
But Henri was not interested in being a glass man.
He had other ambitions.
He studied chemistry and at the age of 20 began a four-year apprenticeship at a pharmacy in Frankfurt before leaving Germany for Switzerland in the late 1830s.
By 1840, Henri's entrepreneurial spirit led him to try his hand at making everything from nut oils, liquors, rum, vinegar, absinthe, lemonade and sparkling mineral water.
But none of his products seemed to take off.
Marketing it as Henri Nestle milk flour, which sounds disgusting, it quickly hit the shelves all over Europe and by the 1870s it was being sold in the US as Nestle's infant food.
Soon after, in 1857, when Henri and his chocolatier friend Daniel Peter joined forces to create the world's first chocolate milk, Nestlé hit the big time.
And 140 years later, Nestlé would become the largest food and beverage company in the whole wide world, and it would be worth almost $90 billion.
1875 marked the beginning of a major success story for Nestle, but it also marked the beginning of a horror story for much of the world.
The popularity of alternatives to breast milk rose massively during the Industrial Revolution, due, among many things, to maternal deaths, labour demands and cultural norms.
The rise in female employment saw many women abandoning breastfeeding for artificial alternatives, which usually involved mixtures of cereals, sugar and cow milk.
And wet nursing was falling out of favour too, because it was seen as unhygienic and immoral, which it is.
Just as the rise in popularity of artificial methods was taking place, the science of nutrition was developing rapidly.
By the turn of the 20th century, public health authorities in the West proclaimed that the high infant mortality rates were due mainly to contaminated milk supplies.
In England, milk was identified as a vector of tuberculosis and typhoid outbreaks.
The brochure claimed that irrational food was the main cause of high mortality in infants and that Nestle's baby's milk addressed all of the physiological needs of an infant.
The brochure went on to quote a number of prominent professors who had no doubt been paid to approve Nestle's claims or maybe just like fucking the Sacklers just didn't exist.
Oh, yes, absolutely.
This case is almost a blow-by-blow parallel with the Sackler case.
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