Baby denied milk for 18 hours at UK detention centre

Every few months it seems there is a scandal at Yarlswood Immigration Detention Centre in the UK over the way a mother and baby are treated...

Arnie terminates transfats in California

If you have read my chapter in the book Global Obligations for the Right to Food - or this blog - then you will have seen the lessons learn...

Calendar reduced - great breastfeeding pictures from around the world

We still have a few copies of our 2008 breastfeeding calendar available. Though the months are passing, the breastfeeding pictures from arou...

A diverting campaign on obesity

Just a few facts.... In 2002 a report from UBS Warburg investment bank said that 46% of Nestlé income was from 'less healthy foods' ...

Beware of Nestlé spying

The Swiss campaign group, ATTAC, has launched a legal action against Nestlé and Securitas after it was revealed that the world's largest...

Harassment of breastfeeding mothers - is it a peculiarly British failing?

The breastfeeding picnics that took place on Monday 21 July 2008 generated media coverage both before and after the events. The aim was to c...

Dr. Miriam Stoppard's study on breastfeeding rates

I gather Dr. Miriam Stoppard is contacting Heads of Midwifery at UK hospitals requesting information on breastfeeding rates. I am contacting...

The right to feed a baby in public

Breastfeeding picnics are taking place at various locations in the UK today (Monday 21 July 2008) to celebrate and assert a mother's rig...

Celebrating breastfeeding in public in the UK

As I flagged up recently on this blog, there will be breastfeeding picnics taking place at various locations in the UK on Monday, 21 July. S...

Nestlé driving down standards in South Africa and the world

As you are likely to have seen from our May press release , after three attempts we finally received the South African Advertising Standards...

UK breastfeeding picnics - 21 July

There are to be picnics held around the UK next week to support the right to breastfeed in public. You can find out full details on Morgan G...

Heinz/Farley's new formula launch shows how it betrays mothers

Not so long ago Heinz/Farley's was trying to gain free publicity for its formula by claiming it was the cheapest on the market. It distr...

Books including information on Nestlé available from Baby Milk Action

Someone posted a comment on an earlier blog entry asking if there are any books about Nestlé. We have a variety in our on-line Virtual Shop ...

Will the ASA do anything about Cow & Gate's bottle feeding advertisement?

Here are a couple of screen shots of the Cow & Gate advertisement I wrote about yesterday . We have reported this to the UK Advertising ...

Cow and Gate'slaughing babies advertising

Have you seen Cow & Gate's laughing babies advertisement in the UK? If so, please let us know what channel and when. We are pursuing...

Nestle and other chocolate companies failing to act on plan to end child slavery

A couple of years ago I interviewed Bama Athreya, Director of the International Labour Rights Forum (ILRF) regarding Nestlé and child slaver...

How to reduce the levels of transfats in foods

I wrote yesterday about how Nestlé is sponsoring a forthcoming Govnet Conference on obesity and how the company has argued for voluntary ac...

Nestlé sponsors Govnet Conference on obesity

I've written recently about sponsorship and conflicts of interest. An forthcoming example that several people have alerted us to is Nes...

Growth in human donor milk banks in the UK and Brazil

Milk banks came up twice today. That's human donor milk banks, that pasteurise expressed breastmilk, primarily for premature infants, wh...

The impact of advertising on children - UK government asks for views

The UK Government is consulting on advertising and promotion to children. You can easily give your views through an on-line process that jus...