Is history bunk? A work of fiction, written by, and flattering to, the powerful, rather than the facts? I often ponder this when seeing how ...
I am Campaigns and Networking Coordinator at Baby Milk Action, which monitors the baby food industry. Our aim is to protect breastfeeding and babies fed on formula from practices that put profits before health. This is a daily look behind the scenes of the work of Baby Milk Action, including the boycott of Nestlé (the worst of the baby food companies), which we promote in the UK. See the Baby Milk Action website if you are unfamiliar with our work.
Is history bunk? A work of fiction, written by, and flattering to, the powerful, rather than the facts? I often ponder this when seeing how ...
Two articles today deal with the difficult subject of infant feeding in emergencies. One, in The Guardian, picks up on the paper’s recent in...
Here's a great initiative: Binit . The idea is simple: --- All pregnant women and new mothers have a right to receive good quality, evid...
This is a story of two letters, that are, in different ways, missing. And various other letters connected to them. Could get confusing. The ...
Here is a link to download the Save the Children report referred to in The Guardian investigation into Nestlé in Bangladesh published last w...
Last week an 18-year-old Ugandan mother was imprisoned in Yarl's Wood, one of the UK Government's immigration detention centres. Thi...
Baby Milk Action can provide speakers on the baby milk issue, the marketing requirements and the boycott campaign. We also turn out to debat...
Nestle has responded to the Guardian investigation I wrote about last week at: http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2007/05/guardian-investigat...
A big thank you to everyone who came to the annual demonstration at Nestlé (UK) HQ in Croydon on Saturday , or leafleted at other venues aro...
So the car is loaded with stuff to take to Croydon tomorrow for a little stunt to try to draw attention to Nestlé's pushing of baby milk...
People are always wanting to know whether Nestlé and other baby food companies are still misbehaving in the way they push their products. Wh...
Today was the launch of the Breastfeeding Manifesto, a seven-point plan to improve support and protection of a mother's right to breastf...