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Makes me so mad I could spit!

Nev

As a BFing mother this makes me sooooooooooo cross.

I just also read an article about HIPP - makers of organic baby food and formula - are up to the same kind of thing in Eastern Europe.

http://www.ibfan.org/english/codewatch/ ... ipp03.html

Just goes to show you that organic isn´t always ethical.

Clara x.

this is a visual list of nestle products. the only tempations for me are kitkats and smarties... and i can live with out them

Nestle. Evil, bad, wrong on soooo many levels!

red wrote:this is a visual list of nestle products. the only tempations for me are kitkats and smarties... and i can live with out them

Did you see contadina on there.....

Clara x.

WOW, you're right Clara!

Nev

er...dunno what that is....

The name of one of our forum members (actually two Contadina and Contadino).

Nev

you'd think it would be of more benefit to nestle to get the mums addicted to chocolate and cheerios, so they would be buying the wretched products and still able to bf due to better milk supply or whatever?!? Not that I condone nestle or their products, but it would be a way to stop them dissing bfing?!?

Interesting thought there CC!!

Don't forget we are talking about developing countries here. Often quite warm, so chocolate would only make sense if they had fridges - which is unlikely. Same with cheerios: If I remember rightly, that's a breakfast cereal? Well, you'd need milk for that - same problem: no fridge. And probably no fresh milk anyway.

No, no - they know what they are doing...

apparently we are born without the ability to digest cows milk, so by encouraging mums to bottle-feed they are making the kids able to digest cows milk, and also addicting them to sugar... to be perfect consumers of the campanys other nasty/addictive products... not silly are they?

catalyst wrote:apparently we are born without the ability to digest cows milk,

I was reading an article in New Scientist a while ago that may be at variance with that (either way, these details are news to me). The issue at point was our ability to digest lactose, regardless of its source. According to the article, all of us are born with a gene that enables us to digest milk in infancy, but westerers have recently evolved to be able to digest milk throughout adulthood, too. Elsewhere in the world, the gene is switched off as people mature.

Apparently, this is something that has only developed during the last 7,000 years, and today 90% of Europeans can digest milk as adults. It was postulating that this may be evidence of natural selection in modern man.