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*Children's health is coming second to the profits of baby formula peddlers
In Britain, too, corporate muscle and government weakness means mothers
are gulled into swapping the breast for the tin
George Monbiot
Tuesday June 19, 2007
The Guardian
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Like most of the world, I was mistaken. I thought that the aggressive
promotion of baby formula was a problem confined to the poorer nations,
where weak or complicit governments are pushed around by corporations,
and mothers are gulled into swapping the breast for the tin. But after I
wrote about the bullying of the government of the Philippines by baby
formula companies a fortnight ago, the National Childbirth Trust and
Baby Milk Action got in touch to tell me a story much closer to home.
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Morgan Gallagher
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