[Madhatter]

Originally Posted by semihere

just thought I'd add - as an aside - that the boycott of Nestle was actually in protest against their campaign in the third world to convince women that powdered milk was better for their child than breastfeeding. The problem with their claims is that they failed to point out that there are specific guidelines to follow in preparing bottled milk, the instructions on their products were often printed in English, which the mothers quite often couldn't read (if they could even read at all), the water used to prepare the milk was very rarely clean enough for a newborn baby's immune system to cope with if the new mother could get a ready supply of water in the first place, and finally, due to the sheer cost of powdered milk in relation to income, many women in the third world tended to put less powder in the mixture than was required (to make it go further), thus causing huge rises in infant mortality due to malnutrition. It was an evil affair, Nestle knew what was happening, but they just stepped up their advertising campaign and even had representatives who'd travel around advising young mothers to bottle-feed.

Thanks very much for that semihere, that was very informative, I'd forgotten the exact points of it and reasonswhy, it's been so long.
Any idea if it was resolved or is it still going on ?