Does anybody know how to donate to Amy or her future trips?

Thanks,
Alysha

> Date:    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:45:11 -0700
> From:    Birth <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Travelling midwife on Nestle
>
> Experiences of a midwife in some of the most war-torn places in the world.
> Here is her experience with Nestle in developing countries!
>
> http://loadedbow.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/amy-osborne-overseas-midwife/#more
> -567
>
> Amy in Darfur
>
> LB: I understand you are an advocate of boycotting Nestle and educating
> people about the damage they have done and are doing in the third world. Can
> you tell us a bit about this topic and why it matters?
>
>  A: You might not want to get me started on Nestle.I'm a bit of a zealot
> .According to UNICEF: "Marketing practices that undermine breastfeeding are
> potentially hazardous wherever they are pursued: in the developing world,
> WHO estimates that some 1.5 million children die each year because they are
> not adequately breastfed." Babies who are bottle-fed are more prone to
> illness, no matter what country they are in. This is simply because they are
> missing out on the antibodies that are present in their mother's
> breast-milk. Babies who are bottle-fed in certain countries are at an
> astronomically higher risk of illness and death. This is because of the lack
> of clean water, the inability to sterilize the bottles and/or the family's
> poverty leads them to over-dilute the formula. These three factors can lead
> to fatal cases of diarrhea, dehydration or starvation.
>
> Nestle is one of the most aggressive marketers of baby formula and
> consistently finds ways to undermine breastfeeding in favour of infant
> formula. Their employees stand in the aisles of supermarkets in the
> Philippines, dressed professionally, convincing people that it is better for
> their baby to be bottle-fed. Their employees "befriend" hospitals, doctors
> clinics and maternity centers and their staff (take them out bowling, for
> dinner, bring gifts, etc) in order to have the staff wear Nestle labels on
> their scrubs and/or put up posters. In Afghanistan they were the only
> company to sell infant formula and they had managed to brainwash the women
> so well that I had to fight them tooth and nail to breastfeed. Often they
> would use most of the family income to buy the formula and their other
> children would go hungry as a result. The ones who couldn't afford the
> Nestle formula were so convinced that their breast-milk was bad for their
> babies that they would give them chewed up cookies and sugar-water instead.
> Want to guess how long those babies lived? I can't even count how many
> babies I've seen being buried because they were given Nestle formula instead
> of their mother's breast-milk. Nestle is evil. They know that their efforts
> to improve their profits cost babies their lives. And they do it anyways. My
> sister says, "At the end of the day you only have yourself to face. At the
> end of your life, that is another matter altogether". I agree.
>
> www.babymilkaction.org <http://www.babymilkaction.org/>  (a great
> anti-Nestle website. All of the facts)
>
>
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