Not exact matches
You can buy plain whole
milk yogurt for your
baby from companies like Stonyfield Farm, Cascade Fresh and Brown Cow.
Google «Greenpeace» and «babyvoeding» and you will find a successful campaign to stop Nutricia packing their
baby milk powder in paper
from the destructive
company Asia Pulp & Paper: an entire campaign without talking about the impact on deforestation of the
milk powder itself.
The
company, which is the target of a boycott for unethical
baby milk marketing practices around the world, is trying to divert attention
from this, while presenting itself as an expert on protein.
From monitoring Nestlé's baby milk marketing activities and working with partners around the world to force it and other companies to abide by minimum marketing standards, I have seen Nestlé's strategies employed in their full range from slick PR to dirty tri
From monitoring Nestlé's
baby milk marketing activities and working with partners around the world to force it and other
companies to abide by minimum marketing standards, I have seen Nestlé's strategies employed in their full range
from slick PR to dirty tri
from slick PR to dirty tricks.
The independent information
from the NHS on
milks for older
babies is swamped by the promotion
from the formula
companies — and it is disappointing that the Museum is prepared to profit
from this by hiring out its facilities, rather than changing its due diligence procedures.
Although Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss
company, when
Baby Milk Action has written to its Chief Executive over past years and decades regarding
company practices, responses generally came
from Nestlé (UK).
Baby Milk Action warned Oxfam that this would be exploited by Nestlé and other
companies that are expert at churning out reports and divert attention
from company practices on the ground.
'' It's the way the
companies mail samples to an expecting woman's house before she's even had the
baby as if to say, you're
milk isn't good enough» If someone is so fragile and needy that they get that message
from a sample of formula, I shudder to think what they are going to do when much bigger and still routine parts of parenthood rear their heads (like reading a report card that has things marked «needs improvement»)
Baby Milk Action has embarked on its «Say NO to formula
company sponsorship «campaign in response to the many messages of concern we receive
from health workers who are targeted by
companies and also dismayed to see events they might otherwise attend being sponsored by
companies.
Baby Milk Action's Campaigns and Networking Coordinator, Mike Brady, asked the Chairman (third from right on the platform, below), Directors and shareholders to reconsider the four - point plan put to the company repeatedly since 2001, which calls on the company to bring baby food marketing policies and practices into line with World Health Assembly requireme
Baby Milk Action's Campaigns and Networking Coordinator, Mike Brady, asked the Chairman (third
from right on the platform, below), Directors and shareholders to reconsider the four - point plan put to the
company repeatedly since 2001, which calls on the
company to bring
baby food marketing policies and practices into line with World Health Assembly requireme
baby food marketing policies and practices into line with World Health Assembly requirements.
Left, Mike Brady,
Baby Milk Action Campaigns Coordinator, calls for action
from the board of Nestlé at the
company's shareholder meeting on 19 April 2012.
Probably the only whistleblower
from inside the multinational
company, who reported about his practices as
baby milk salesman with doctors and hospitals in Pakistan.
Baby Milk Action joined partners
from the International
Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) to brief journalists in Geneva about formula
company's marketing strategies and their violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.
The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but it is worse than useless as it posts misleading reports
from companies on its website without any form of checking and does not investigate reports of egregious violations when reported by
Baby Milk Action.
She pointed out the misleading nature of the CSV reports and referred to a new report
from Save the Children, which exposes aggressive
baby milk marketing practices by Nestlé and other
companies:
This growth comes
from systematic violations of
baby milk marketing standards adopted by the World Health Assembly, according to the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which monitors company policies and practices around the wo
baby milk marketing standards adopted by the World Health Assembly, according to the International
Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which monitors company policies and practices around the wo
Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which monitors
company policies and practices around the world.
The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but posts reports
from companies on its website without any checking and has not investigated allegations of egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles when reported by
Baby Milk Action.
At that time the western medical model had become standard in the Philippines and throughout much of the developing world -
babies were routinely removed
from their mothers at birth, placed in a nursery and formula fed - with supplies happily provided by the
milk companies.
Baby Milk Action comment: UNICEF's Legal Officer confirmed long ago in response to a request for clarification on contact with the public
from Baby Milk Action: «Article 5.5 of the Code states quite clearly that the marketing personnel of
companies manufacturing products within the scope of the Code, in their business capacity, «should not seek direct or indirect contact of any kind with pregnant women or with mothers of infant and young children.»
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Baby Milk Action comment: In addition to the documentary evidence substantiating the allegations by Syed Aamir Raza, there were contemporary surveys conducted in 33 cities in Pakistan and published as the report Feeding Fiasco, which found evidence
from health workers of the activities of
company representatives.
If anti-trust regulations stop Nestlé
from calling on Wyeth to respect the rules in the UK, how is it Nestlé and Wyeth are currently working together in the Philippines with other
baby milk companies to undermine the rules there?
Press release 19 April 2012 Media coverage: Dairy Reporter 20 April 2012 At the
company shareholder meeting in Lausanne on 19 April, Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, rejected proposals
from Baby Milk Action that could ultimately bring to an end the...
The Philippine Health Department last year proposed regulations to strengthen its national
milk code, which bans formula
companies from advertising products made for
babies less than a year old.
«Going
from all
milk or formula to real food can be daunting,» says Lisa Courtois, senior product manager at Béaba, a
baby - food product
company based in Hoboken, New Jersey.