I apologize if this has already been posted.

Jessica Mattingly M.Ed, CCE, CBE, LLLL
Kansas City, MO
 
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Can International Standards Prevent Corporate Malpractice? The Case of 
Baby Food
Mike Brady
23 January 2004
http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/77476/1/

Globalization is sometimes portrayed as a recent phenomenon. Yet over 
100 years ago the baby food industry was already an international 
business, with Nestlé exporting cereal milk food to Latin America and 
the Dutch East Indies, and soon afterwards opening factories in target 
markets...

...As the report shows, it has taken concerted marketing activity over 
decades to create bottle-feeding cultures. Now in mature markets, such 
as Belgium and the UK, bottle-feeding is seen almost as a lifestyle - 
rather than a health - choice.

Even in countries where breastfeeding predominates, such as Bolivia and 
Kenya, baby food marketing messages cause mothers to doubt their ability 
to breastfeed. A surprising number use feeding bottles, often with 
unsuitable substances inside them...

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