Canada's CBC Radio's "The Current" had a piece on formula and breastfeeding
. . . .

 

To listen to the piece go to 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200705/20070516.html

 

Baby Formula: Save the Children

30 years ago, activists around the world launched one of the biggest
consumer boycotts of all time. Their target was Nestle, at the time, one of
the world's largest manufacturers of baby formula.

The concern stemmed from the way the company marketed its formula to the
developing world and countries where clean water was almost impossible to
come by. It was a simple equation: Formula, mixed with unclean water was
putting children's lives at risk. 

And the boycott seemed to work. In 1981, the World Health Organization
introduced the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes, a
code that regulated how formula companies could market their products.
Nestle and other formula companies signed on and the boycott was lifted. 

But now, a generation after the code of conduct was first brought in, Save
The Children UK says the problems haven't gone away. In a report released
today, the organization says the marketing of baby formula is still putting
the lives of children at risk.

Costanza de Toma is an Advocacy Advisor with Save the Children UK. She wrote
the briefing and she was in London, England. 


Baby Formula - US Author

Well to give us a sense of how different the picture is when we look at the
use of formula, and the lowering rates of breastfeeding, not in the
developing world, but rather here, closer to home, We were joined by Barbara
Behrmann.

She is a sociologist and the author of The Breastfeeding Cafe:
<http://www.breastfeedingcafe.com/>  Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges &
Secrets of Nursing. 

She spoke to us from her home in Ithaca, New York.

 

Listen to The Current: Part
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Janice Reynolds

 


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