Campaign
for baby milk companies to stop spending money on promotion and make permanent (not promotional) reductions to the price of formula.
Nestlé ignores this fact, instead boasting that it is the
only baby milk company in the FTSE4Good ethical investment index, but FTSE4Good prompted Nestlé to weaken its own policies.
Part of the problem is also the massive sums
baby milk companies spend on promoting their products with misleading claims that both undermine breastfeeding and rip off mothers who use formula.
But first let me say, just in case there is any doubt, IBFAN is not alone in suggesting that
baby milk companies violate the marketing requirements.
«Yemen simply does not have the money to buy new medical equipment, so healthcare workers will accept incentives
from baby milk companies, and in turn promote the product to their patients.»
In order to qualify for entry on the FTSE4Good index [now],
baby milk companies do not have to demonstrate full Code compliance, only that they have put management systems in place to reach, eventually, Code compliance.»
Baby Milk Action argues it is time for the UK Government to act on the repeated calls from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and act to
stop baby milk companies breaking marketing rules.
In countries where formula marketing is not restricted, exclusive breastfeeding rates and breastfeeding education are lower.5 In the UK, for example,
artificial baby milk companies spend ten times more on advertising than the Department of Health spends on breastfeeding promotion; and the UK formula marketing regulations omit many important provisions of the Code.
Mr. Luis Cantarell, President and CEO of Nestlé Health Science S.A. and Head of Nestlé Nutrition, read a prepared response again stating Nestlé was the
only baby milk company that made it onto the FTSE4Good index.
However, Nestle's current marketing practices show the world's largest
baby milk company is following the strategies developed — and even more aggressive ones it uses around the world and has imported to the UK.
«We hope to have a handful of people outside each event to prompt those turning up to consider the conflicts of interest involved in attending events sponsored by
a baby milk company.
«Nestlé, the world's largest
baby milk company, systematically breaks internationally agreed marketing rules.
What is the purpose of
a baby milk company providing «reassurance» to mothers?
Nestlé is the largest of
the baby milk companies.
Nestlé is the world's largest
baby milk company.
This includes encouraging midwives to work for it off the books: Danone offers to pay midwives to work for its formula - branded telephone carelines through an agency so they can claim to be doing bank work without mentioning they are working for
a baby milk company.
Baby milk companies should respect the marketing rules, stop promotion and make formula cheaper, instead of making unsubstantiated claims to drive up prices.
Hundreds of people have already signed our petition calling for
baby milk companies to end promotion and make formula cheaper.»
I have no doubt that
the baby milk companies are patiently laying up long - term plans for how to get the mothers of the world to accept milk made in such mice, or other gene - manipulated animals.