The right to food book reviews

The book Global Obligations for the Right to Food has been reviewed in a couple of current publications. The International Lactation Consult...

Three things to do on World Food Day 2008

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...

Nutrition, worms, measles and malaria

I have been re-reading Michael Latham's chapter in Global Obligations for the Right to Food about tackling the curse of worms, measles ...

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...

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' ...

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...

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 ...

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...

UK Government to be quizzed by UN Committee on its failure to act on formula marketing

As part of our UK campaign we have submitted reports to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. This reviews how well gover...

How can we stop corporations abusing human rights?

What to do about companies that break national laws and international standards while demonstrating contempt for the systems that are suppos...