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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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