Formula for Disaster: A documentary (Part 5 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

[communitywork]

I hope there can be a video in Tagalog that explains the Milk Code to the thousands of health workers, which can be viewed by Youtube whenever capacity building needs to be done.

[engelfeuer]

thank you very much for producing this video. i am about to give birth and promise to be a staunch advocate of breastfeeding, even if people around me start to discourage me already.

[scriv8]

Thank you so much for producing and showing this video. You are doing a wonderful community health service, worldwide, and I only wish the world was made in majority of people like yourself.

[Adnezal]

Only in America do women need a breast feeding program and systems and statistics. Hey how about this: FEED your fucking baby with the milk god gave you, that's what it's there for! Stop trusting that a corporation or a program is looking out for your interest! Don't have kids if you're incapable of feeding them heatlhy nutrition.

[communitywork]

With ensured flexibility for milk expression in the work schedule, accommodation to pump or store breast-milk, and backing from employers and colleagues, women will be able to sustain breastfeeding longer. In the United States, retailer Home Depot started their Breastfeeding Worksite Solutions Program in 1995 with 4 associates participating. By the end of 200, more than 100 mothers participated in the program, and compared to 1998, breastfeeding duration has increased from 7.8 to 8.7 months.

[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.