Formula for Disaster: A documentary (Part 4 of 5)

This eye-opening documentary reveals how the marketing of powdered milk has caused fewer mothers to breastfeed in the Philippines. The milk companies' formula for profits is a formula for disaster.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• breastfeeding
• breastmilk
• milk
• infant
• formula
• mothers
• marketing
• health
• nutrition
• disaster
• UNICEF
• WHO
• DoH
• Philippines

[janb214]

@puhutes True, but these people don't live in Suburbia, they live in the slums where poverty, disease and illness are rampant. They give their children a fighting chance by immunizing them.

[puhutes]

@ 1:44 - Have the baby immunized this Wednesday... Apparently Formula advocacy is not the only "Formula for disaster" pushed onto the people. Baby formula = big profits for big agra food companies... immunization/vaccines = big profits for big pharma.

[communitywork]

Senators Aquilino Pimentel & Pia Cayetano are working to pass Senate Bill 1767, which supports the setting up of "lactation stations" in work & public places where mothers can privately express milk or breastfeed their babies. Most companies provide their maternal employees with what is only required in the law. A few offer additional support for their nursing employees. With many mothers in the work force & superior benefits of breastfeeding, we need lactation support program in the workplace

[communitywork]

I wonder if the Milk Code covers the new practice I saw in a grocery where Nestle deployed people who dress up and identify themselves as nutritionists and they give out advice to shoppers, armed with height and weight charts?

[ghostinyou88]

this midwife, rosemarie flores has no credibility in the community. her partner is the one that patients approach. she gets grocery monthly from nestle. she is our co-midwife in the city health. she say that alacta invites her to go to seminars that is not true because she has no DOS so no use for her to go to seminars

[mikebradyuk]

Baby Milk Action has a campaign of solidarity with the Philippines as they fight to defend their baby food marketing regulations. Search for us - it isn't possible to post the link here.