Millions of babies died from malnutrition.
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The instant effects of the crisis that Nestle faced were seen in the hospitals, clinics, the slums and the nutritionally deprived areas of the third world countries Most of the effected population were among the children who were under the age of 5, which caused thousands of deaths among the infant, adolescents and the newly born aging from 1-7 months .
Among worst case scenarios Nestle left an emotional, physiological and physical mark upon the parents and the growing population of the consumers, studies show that emerging war between breast feeding and the bottle milk feeding caused the following effects on kids, the group said breastfed children walked significantly better than bottle-fed kids, and were more emotionally advanced. Not only the control group proved to be against but also the United States Agency for International Development official, Dr. Stephen Joseph, blamed “reliance on baby formula for a million infant deaths every year through malnutrition and diarrheal diseases”. NYTIMES
The bad publicity sparked a global boycott of Nestlé.
Among many outrageous acts against Nestle were the Infant Formula Action Coalition in the U.S. objecting Nestlé. It was infectious in France, Finland and Norway and other counties in the west.”I remember my mother telling me about this and in 1980, she refused to buy candy bars because we heard of so many kids dying in the news stories,” one of the volunteer in the boycott said. The after affects of the boycott were the continuous decline in the sales of baby formula and products sold under the Nestle brand.
War on Want said this undermined women’s confidence in breastfeeding.
Women were one of the most dissatisfied from the crisis due to their primary role in feeding the children. Some argue that due to the fear and sadness, mothers milk dried up in result. On the other hand due to the scientific reasons, some women claimed that the nervous system caused their nipples to be in shape which were not useable for feeding their babies, and using bottle milk was necessary.
In fact, most the affected population were in the counties where not enough of water and the other nutritional food was found, and it correlates to the argument of the milk dryness so it is controversial to claim that not using milk everyday for the babies is the only cause.
The International Code of Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes was created in 1981.
The international code of marketing for the breast milk substitutes,was the result of the 1978 hearings by United states senate on the unethical marketing strategies used by the food industry among which the Senator Edward Kennedy, the world health organization and other agencies related to the baby food products were also involves. After three years of continuous hearnings the thirty fourth world health assembly had adopted the resolution WHA34.22 in 1981.
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