Baby Formula, Nutrition, and…Communism?
At a congressional hearing in 1978, Nestle representative Dr. Oswaldo Ballerin accused American activists of engineering an “indirect attack on the free world’s economic system.” By his account, the numerous church groups, women’s groups, unions, and student’s groups were communists because they were boycotting Nestle products in order to protest its marketing of breast-milk substitutes [...]
February 10, 2009
Tags: baby formula, education, Health, heroes, marketing, moms, nutrition, policy Posted in: Politics 
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Melamine – First China’s Pet Food Calamity and Now a Baby Formula Crisis
According to the ever-helpful Wikipedia, “Melamine is combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a very durable thermosetting plastic, and melamine foam, a polymeric cleaning product.” In other words, it is the stuff your picnic plastic-wear is made of. It also happens to bond nitrogen in the same way that proteins do, so when companies test [...]
November 2, 2008
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