Complete with the infantilising headline we’ve come to expect from Fairfax media, Asher Moses has written up the ongoing #nestlefamily incident: “Mummy bloggers spit the dummy over Nestle’s spoilt milk” First, Nestlé hung its bloggers out to dry, leaving them… Read More ›
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Nestlé moves from obfuscation to outright lies
This seems a good point to start a new post. Many Nestle-bloggers seem to be continuing to believe that by taking their questions straight to the company, they will get honest replies, and will clear up all these decades of… Read More ›
Infant Formula Product Placement in Chemistry Matric Exam
School and university exam writers often invent scenarios. They play with made-up names for people, they dream up companies, they have fun devising original scenarios and puns to spice up their questions. But what happens when they get bored doing… Read More ›
Medela Bites its Thumb at the WHO Code
I’d like you to watch this ad with a critical eye. [Transcript is appended.] http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19472558&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 [If you know all about the Code and Innocenti and APMAIF already, skip down to the next iteration of the ad below!] The WHO Code… Read More ›
Infant formula industry fights back in China, lies about WHO Code breaches
Formula companies are back advertising infant formula direct to the public throughout Asia. This is happening in the wake of the melamine disaster in which tens of thousands of babies were sickened and hospitalised – and a few died –… Read More ›
Call to activism: oppose infant formula promotion in Qld Indigenous communities
“Use my picture if it will help” said the woman in this photograph. The babies are twins: the child with the bottle is a girl – she died the next day – but her brother was breastfed and is thriving…. Read More ›
Everyday Codebreaking: Aptamil advertising
Another look at advertising by artificial baby milk companies. I’m going to take a look at the visual imagery in the ad used to present their product as not just “as good as breastmilk”, but subtly or not-so-subtly better. First… Read More ›
