Nestle
Nestle: The Infant Formula Controversy
Nestle is a Swiss multinational food and beverage company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. Nestle sells products such as baby food, breakfast cereal, dairy products, pet foods, soups and sauce, seasoning, and frozen food. It is known as one of the world’s largest food-processing companies with worldwide sales of over $100 billion. Here’s the problem, Nestle is marketing infant formula to developing countries in which misappropriation is leading to unhealthy results such as infants having diarrhea and vomiting. For over 20 years, Nestle has been directly or indirectly charged with involvement in the death of Third World infants. The infant feeding formula apparently is the cause for mass deaths babies in the Third World. Nestle denied all accusation and said that the reason is caused by mother incompetence to read instructions or use the product properly
Mothers in the third world are bottle feeding instead of breastfeeding their children. Breastfeeding rates declined rapidly during the 1960s as baby food companies expanded their activities into developing countries. According to NYtimes.com, A Jamaican woman brought her two babies to Alan Jackson’s clinic at the University of West Indies in Kingston, and the doctor as shocked to see their condition. Her four month old son weigh only five pounds, two pound less at birth. Her daughter, 18 months old, weight 4 pounds from since birth. The family income was only $7 a week, the mother had to dilute the formula because it was too expensive. The formula was a cause in baby’s weight loss. According to UNICEF, about 11 million infants in developing countries die each year before reaching their first birthday. “ The formula itself is a nutritious product, and it can be an acceptable alternative to breast milk under certain condition: when the mother can afford to buy sufficient quantities, when she has access to refrigeration, clean water and adequate sanitation, and when she
Nestle is a Swiss multinational food and beverage company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. Nestle sells products such as baby food, breakfast cereal, dairy products, pet foods, soups and sauce, seasoning, and frozen food. It is known as one of the world’s largest food-processing companies with worldwide sales of over $100 billion. Here’s the problem, Nestle is marketing infant formula to developing countries in which misappropriation is leading to unhealthy results such as infants having diarrhea and vomiting. For over 20 years, Nestle has been directly or indirectly charged with involvement in the death of Third World infants. The infant feeding formula apparently is the cause for mass deaths babies in the Third World. Nestle denied all accusation and said that the reason is caused by mother incompetence to read instructions or use the product properly
Mothers in the third world are bottle feeding instead of breastfeeding their children. Breastfeeding rates declined rapidly during the 1960s as baby food companies expanded their activities into developing countries. According to NYtimes.com, A Jamaican woman brought her two babies to Alan Jackson’s clinic at the University of West Indies in Kingston, and the doctor as shocked to see their condition. Her four month old son weigh only five pounds, two pound less at birth. Her daughter, 18 months old, weight 4 pounds from since birth. The family income was only $7 a week, the mother had to dilute the formula because it was too expensive. The formula was a cause in baby’s weight loss. According to UNICEF, about 11 million infants in developing countries die each year before reaching their first birthday. “ The formula itself is a nutritious product, and it can be an acceptable alternative to breast milk under certain condition: when the mother can afford to buy sufficient quantities, when she has access to refrigeration, clean water and adequate sanitation, and when she
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