One of the activities in our Make a Mark in 2010 initiative was to develop an online training course on monitoring the baby food industry. ...
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.
One of the activities in our Make a Mark in 2010 initiative was to develop an online training course on monitoring the baby food industry. ...
The First Ulverston Breastfeeding Festival (16 - 22 August) was a thoroughly enjoyable event and one that deserves to grow. The town of Ulv...
This is the text of a talk I gave to the La Leche League Ireland Conference on 7 March 2010. The accompanying PowerPoint presentation is at...
We are developing an online course on monitoring the baby food industry. You can find out more by watching a short film clip and trying a sa...
Our new-look website is gradually taking over from our present site. The present site will remain as an archive. You can now find Update 42 ...
Here's a new innovation: html email alerts. I'm just sending the first one out. You can subscribe to alerts and view the online arch...
Fairtrade Fortnight is taking place from 22 February to 7 March. If you would like to support this, you can find out more at: http://www.fai...
Baby Milk Action produces a calendar with breastfeeding pictures from around the world on behalf of some of the groups belonging to the Inte...
On 12 October I was fortunate to attend the 30th anniversary celebration of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in Geneva. Ou...
Our 2009 breastfeeding calendar has now been reduced to £3.00 including UK postage and packing. It's still great value as the pictures c...
News of two awards and something similar. Firstly, Nestlé has won yet another shaming award. This time it is from a consumer group in Taiwan...
News of three awards. Firstly, Nestlé has won yet another shaming award. This time it is from a consumer group in Taiwan. The Taipei Times r...
A couple of search engine issues have been on the work plan for today. Firstly we have a new search engine feature on the Baby Milk Action w...
We have a new addition to our on-line Virtual Shop. It is called Global Health Watch 2 and is an alternative world health report. Our Policy...
This blog has been locked by blogger over the past ten days, supposedly as a 'spam blog'. This happened once before. I believed at t...
If you are looking for an unusual and useful gift for someone for Christmas - or any other time - how about membership of Baby Milk Action? ...
Baby Milk Action members will shortly be receiving copies of our latest newsletter. If you are not yet a member, you can join today through ...
I've had the good fortune to hear Gill Rapley speak on her work on baby-led weaning a couple of times. In the talks she passes films of ...
Nestlé's pretence for trying hi-jack the website we launched for International Nestlé-Free Week (4 - 10 October) was the absurd claim th...
This is our new t-shirt, mug and calendar advertisement. Click on it for a larger version. Contact me if you have a publication where we ca...