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We’re LIVE with partners delivering 80K+ petition signatures to @Nestle’s headquarters demanding the company stop unethically and aggressively marketing infant formula and undermining global health policies. Watch: facebook.com/Care2/videos/2… 
Recent reports have exposed what we've known for years: The infant formula industry is doing everything in its power to weaken global health policies, undermine #breastfeeding and rake in more profit. Now Trump's helping his industry friends get their way. nytimes.com/2018/07/08/hea…
This should be old news, left behind in the 1980s after the World Health Assembly passed a Code prohibiting the unethical marketing of infant formula and formula industry lobbying.
37 years later, we’re still waiting for @Nestle and others in the industry to follow the rules.
37 years later, we’re still waiting for @Nestle and others in the industry to follow the rules.
Just watched #dispatches #BreastfeedingUncovered and as someone who is currently feeding a 8 month old it left me emotional and angry. A thread:
Breastfeeding is one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done but it’s also the best thing I’ve ever done. It totally sickens me that local councils are cutting breastfeeding support whilst the NHS encourages breastfeeding to new mums.
When Robin was only a few weeks old we had issues with reflux and extreme fussiness and I was in tears almost daily. When I contacted the NHS for help they told me about a local breastfeeding group, which once they checked the details, realised that it’d been closed down.
The WHA breastfeeding resolution was just the tip of the policy iceberg- language in an obscure int'l food standard will have huge implications for infant nutrition. You bet formula companies are in on the fight. @juliaoftoronto provides a primer: vox.com/science-and-he…
Advocates are preparing for a mtg on the Standard for Follow-Up Formula this November. The voices of rich countries tend to drown out all others in these policy forums. Here's a brief on the issues, and what positions are in the interest of public health: archnutrition.org/wp-content/upl…
Confused about "follow-up" formula or "toddler" milk and how it's different from infant fromula? So are a lot of people. That's by design:
Trump comes out in opposition to breast-feeding which has DECADES of science behind it and is essential to building antibodies in babies. One more corporations-over-people move.
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials nyti.ms/2J0WJuV
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials nyti.ms/2J0WJuV
This is a truly astonishing story. #Breastfeeding is a long-established benefit to babies and also adds to the bonding between mother and child.
Why would Trump and #HHS reject such fundamental science?
Why would Trump and #HHS reject such fundamental science?
What is even more appalling is the Trump administration threatened other countries AND the @WHO on this issue and RUSSIA had to step up and lead on the subject.
Incredible. Truly. The way this administration bends over for corporations over people-- and now babies--is stunning.
Incredible. Truly. The way this administration bends over for corporations over people-- and now babies--is stunning.
Thread. A battle over #breastfeeding has been brewing this week at @WHO headquarters at the #WHA71 where countries are negotiating a resolution on infant and young child feeding #IYCF. 1/
@WHO The IYCF resolution itself is not controversial but quickly became politicized when, reportedly, the US delegation (ie Trump Administration) started using bullying tactics to get countries to not introduce the resolution. Allegedly threatening trade for example. 2/
This had a chilling effect. No country wanted to take the risk of a backlash from the US and the #breastfeeding resolution was at risk. 3/
