Formula for Disaster (Part 3 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

[kirajordygabe]

Mothers, For goodness-sake, please don't ever let yourselves get brainwashed by TV adverts about milk formulas, because nothing can ever be better than breast feeding your babies. It's only money that these milk companies are wanting and plus you can even spend your own money on more important things that you might need.

[communitywork]

The double talk and under the table tactics that the milk companies practice are really annoying and destructive. The damage they inflict upon children cannot be undone even if they returned the billions in profits they milk from this mass deception.

[charitymae15]

LET US HELP PROMOTE BREASTFEEDING IN OUR COMMUNITY. Inform mothers the benefits of breastfeeding and its importance in the health of the baby. I myself is helping during antenatal group talk. Let us help ....

[islandmamma]

The people in the meeting look bored and amused as if it's ajoke grrr

[SillageDeLaReine]

MOM (Manufacturing Organic Milk)

Breastfeeding is hands down, the best way to go. In case of catastrophes, bottlefed babies will be deprived of nutrition or lack of because there will be very little source of filtered water supplies and without that, there will not be enough water to make formulas. Infants cannot wait on the help of UNICEF, Red Cross, FEMA, etc... it is too long a wait for any child. Hurricane Katrina is a prime example of it, by the time aid comes in, it's too late for some.

[communitywork]

"The improvement of maternity benefits can help improve the statistics," said Department of health Undersecretary Alex Padilla. "However, it is the combination of a strong breastfeeding nation strategy, support of the employers, and a revitalized breastfeeding culture, that can spell the difference for our working women to sustain breastfeeding."

[miapiapizza]

Thank you! Finally I have the proof of the evil that so many people refuse to believe.

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[Mozpam]

Excellent video Mike; thanks for this.

Viewers - a search via Google should soon find the Baby Milk Action website for you; search it out and find out what else you can do about this.

[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.