Oh dear Oxfam have made a bit of a boob (or actually a bottle in this case!)

[mawbroon]

Have a look at this. Especially around 2 mins when Mel B makes an appearance

If you understand why this is a big blunder on their part and feel strongly enough to complain, then you can do so here

Nobody?

yeah it's not great is it

Ouch

off to bed now. will bump in the morning

i dont understand explain it to me

She writes her name on a baby's bottle.

An image which undermines breastfeeding.

does it?

bit bloody militant me thinks jeez

cant you express into a bottle?

what did you want her to do - write on her norks

Is no-one allowed to show bottles on TV? Is it against the law or something? (am a BF btw)

jesus christ do you scour the internet looking for reasons to be offended?

This is an awareness campaign by Oxfam urging governments to cough up the money they promised in order to fight world poverty.

No doubt everyone involved in the video gave their time for free too - but, yes, you go ahead and make your petty complaint.

One of the more ridiculous postings I've ever read in this section and fuck knows there's some stiff competition.

nancy66 Couldn't agree more.

Actually, there is a serious issue here. The World Health Organisation reckons that 1.5 million babies die every year because of inappropriate marketing of breast milk substitutes in areas where there is incredible poverty and poor sanitation. Feeding a baby formula with contaminated water is often a death sentence and because the formula is so expensive and the mothers are so poor, the temptation to water it down to make it last longer is huge and entirely understandable.

Oxfam should know better. Yes, of course you can express milk in a bottle, but most of us wealthy enough to be on here have access to a clean, safe water supply and are able to read.

I second nancy66

I agree with what mummy2anna says
BUT as a militant bf I still dont thnk that seeing a bottle in a video about 'whatever your name is, we still want to help' or something is going to exacerbate any existing problems

maybe I have missed the point of it, not sure, bit early

what should be stopped is the stupid fucking advert about one of the formulas being as good as bm

also the companies who make themselves look good by sending formula to third world countries should be stopped, laws made, forced to send money to sort the water issues and disciplined for doing somthing so fucking stupid in the first place

sorry MAwbroon,
You lost me,

I used to volunteer for baby-Milk Action, (the anti-nestle campaign group) and I most certainly do not find the image of a bottle offensive.

What is offensive is the disgusting way in which baby milk is advertised/distributed in the developing world, causing the death of numerous babies as they are contaminated by bad water.

Sales representatives posing as health visitors handing out free samples, nestle threatening to pull out of countries that allow pro-breastfeeding infomration programmes to be shown, doctors being paid to advice the benefits of milk powder

now that is worth campaigning about,

This advert is aimed at the west (to raise money and awareness), do you really think that the communities that don't have clean drinking water are all looking at youtube?

Wot TR said.

Link to baby milk action

here!

this is shockingly ridiculous

oh for gods sake this image does not undermine breastfeeding at all.
get a grip .

Given that 1.5 million babies per year die because they are not breastfed, I'd say that using a baby bottle in this video is in rather poor taste.

agree with tr but there is another element here, given what they actually do oxfam should know better.

Ridiculous. You are just looking for something to get worked up about. It's like the breastfeeding department of the Gestapo around here sometimes.

I agree that oxfam should know better
and I think yes, maybe it is on poor taste

but not worth complaining about or losing sleep over

unlike the real issues we have already mentioned

DD was breastfed, but via a bottle - I expressed and DH bottle fed her the milk. I think that you are being OTT here.

lyric at 1:55:

in the name of greed and gain
there is a lot of people there suffering

shortly after comes the baby bottle.

poor people don't own breast pumps and certainly can't find time to hand express. use your common sense.

how fucking ironic but i wonder if that was the irony oxfam was after.

i am parping off this thread as the ignorance on the issues involved coupled with the usual fascist slurs doesn't deserve my time.

off to sniff my newborn's breastfed breath.

I think it gives encouragement to women who have poor milk supply like me.
If there were images of people breast feeding everywhere and no bottle in sight, I would feel a complete failure. More so than I do already.
Unfortunately we cannot all BF.
Formula is not the work of the devil.
My DS would have starved to death if it hadn't been for formula.