As companies grow ever larger it becomes harder for governments to regulate them. If a company misbehaves in a country, the government may b...
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.
As companies grow ever larger it becomes harder for governments to regulate them. If a company misbehaves in a country, the government may b...
I wrote recently how the UK Advertising Standards Authority cleared an advertisement for formula which breaches international marketing stan...
I wrote yesterday about the report on the UK from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child which called for the marketing reg...
One of the reasons we and our partners in the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) monitor the baby food industry is to provide in...
Today is World Food Day. Here are three things to do to celebrate. 1) Order our 2009 breastfeeding calendar - there can be no food more loca...
Nestlé's pretence for trying hi-jack the website we launched for International Nestlé-Free Week (4 - 10 October) was the absurd claim th...
To mark International Nestlé-Free Week we have received a donation of the following image, apparently created by a campaigner in Switzerland...
Our press release on the successful launch of Nestlé-Free Week is available on our website at: http://www.babymilkaction.org/press/press6oct...
The 4 October marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the current boycott of Nestlé over its aggressive marketing of baby foods in the U...
I've written about various aspects of the contamination of Sanlu formula in China with melamine and Enterobacter Sakazakii and how Sanl...