I want to add my support to the campaign to correct the marketing malpractice at Nestle which is contributing to the deaths of millions of infants every year. Providing powdered baby milk in areas where the water supply is unreliable and unpotable was actively discouraged more than 25 years ago by the World Health Organisation. Children are 25 times more likely to die from diarrhea if they are bottle fed as opposed to being breast fed in these regions. Every 30 seconds a baby dies as a direct result of incorrect and inappropriate bottle feeding. For more information go to the website of The International Baby Food Action Network.
Despite this Nestle continues to market their products aggressively in developing countries. To increase profits, baby milk companies try to persuade health workers and mothers to bottle feed. Their tactics range from advertising and misinformation to sending sales reps into hospitals to promote their milks to sponsoring health workers, conferences and even health facilities. For more details of some the tactics employed by Nestle…look here.
I hope that readers of this blog will be enlightened and angered by what they read and join MY family and boycott Nestle’s products until they stop contributing to the deaths of millions of infants. For more information about what you can do, then look up Baby Milk Action.
 
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