jaf (03/23/83)
INFACT is the organization fighting Nestle and urging the Boycott.
To quote from their publication:
"Every minute two babies die - help save them - boycott Nestle.
Nestle uses aggressive marketing techniques to promote their artificial
infant formula in poor countries, persuading mothers to bottle-feed
rather than breastfeed. But where water is contaminated, illiteracy
high, and incomes low, safe preparation of formula is impossible.
Babies are fed germ-laden, overdiluted milk mixtures that cause diarrhea
and malnutrition. The World Health Organization estimates that one to
three million infants die each year because they are improperly bottlefed.
WHO drafted a marketing Code passed by the Assembly by a vote of 118 to
1 (the US casting the only negative vote) on May 21, 1981. Nestle
pretended to agree with the Code but actually lobbied against its
implementation. The Boycott is the only weapon we have to force the
company to stop its advertising practices.
Products to boycott among others; Stouffer restaurants and all
Stouffer products, Taster's Choice, Quik, Nescafe, Souptime, Beechnut
baby foods, Crosse and Blackwell products, Lancome cosmetics etc.
Supporters of the boycott include American Baptist Churches, the ADA,
American Library Assoc., Ambulatory Pediatrics Assoc., Coalition of
Labor Union Women, Gray Panthers, Jewish Peace Fellowship, NOW,
Unitarian Universalist Service Comm., UAW, YWCA, etc."
Address for more information is National INFACT, 1701 University
Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Phone: 612-331-2333.
(It also occurs to me that breastfeeding is often an effective method
of birth control and is the reason nursing goes on so long in some
societies - two years - so there may be another bad side effect from
this whole business - a larger dying population of children).
Judy Friedman (rabbit!jaf)