Nestle Boycott

Every 30 seconds a baby dies from unsafe bottle feeding in the Third World.

Nestle, one of the world’s largest producers of powdered baby milk, is currently breaking a World Health Organisation Code on the marketing of breast milk substitutes.

• Nestle provides free milk to maternity hospitals in the Third World so that newborn babies are routinely bottle-fed.
• When newborn babies are given bottles, they are less able to suckle well. This makes breastfeeding failure likely. The baby is then dependent on artificial milk.
• When the mother and baby leave hospital, the milk is no longer free. At home parents are forced to buy more milk, which can cost 50% of the family income.
• Because the milk is so expensive the child is not fed enough. This leads to malnutrition.
• The water mixed with the formula is often contaminated. This can lead to diarrhoea, malnutrition and death.
• 1.5 million babies die every year from unsafe bottle-feeding.
• Breast-feeding is free and safe and protects against infection.

Every day some 3,000 to 4,000 infants die because they are denied access to adequate breast milk.
James Grant, Executive Officer of UNICEF

YWCA Scotland boycotts Nestle products on all of its premises.

For further information on how you can support the campaign and a full list of Nestle products visit www.babymilkaction.org