without knowing some of the “advanced” techniques for searching, it’s rather like trying to shoot down a distant helicopter with a shotgun.

very tiny thing. blame google for this. hopefully my comment might help someone in future who arrives on this exact page looking for that exact thing ;)

“All I know is, I finally get to kill somebody”
– Francis ‘Psycho’ Soyer from Stripes

OK, so Nestlé doesn’t kill babies directly, but it pushes formula-feeding into areas around the world that don’t have the medical and sanitary infrastructure that makes formula feeding work “well enough” in the US and other high-tech areas. When their (aggressive) marketing works in these places, health goes down and child death rates climb. Babies who get their mothers’ milk, however, continue to thrive, and are much less susceptible to less-than-perfect environmental conditions.

Well-to-do people in the US are increasingly turning to breastfeeding as study after study shows a benefit to the breastfed person (and the breastfeeding woman) over a formula-fed person in just about anything they measure. There’s no need for less well-to-do people to pay the Nestlé tax to feed their kids something inferior — but Nestlé would sure like them to.

This page by “Latino Pundit” outlines the problem:

http://www.latinopundit.com/latino/archives/000498.html

Our family doesn’t buy Nestlé products because we see the benefits of breastfeeding in our own children. We don’t want to help Nestlé pay for advertising to give other children an inferior substitute when 1) they’ve already got the real thing, and 2) formula may be dangerous for them.

Of course, if he were affected by Katrina, he couldn’t request help from FEMA unless he had access to a Microsoft Windows machine:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/06/fema_to_mac_linux_us.html