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Can we have Mike Brady from Baby Milk Action please?

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tabouleh · 14/07/2010 22:39

Hi MNTowers - please can we have Mike Brady from Baby Milk Action.

I have been in email correspondence with him regarding this thread and he is up for a webchat - he asked me to propose a date and time!

I explained that I had to ask you guys first.

Reasons/topics webchat likely to cover:

Discussion of the fact that formula packets don't contain the WHO guidelines of safe preparation.

Discussion re advertising of follow on formula/advertising to HCPs in this country.

Boycott Nestle campaign.

Wider International Issues.

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JustineMumsnet · 20/10/2010 11:02

Yes don't worry - we are in discussion with him about it - we'll definitely have him on.

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JustineMumsnet · 25/10/2010 14:58

Hi all,
So here's where we're at with this issue:

Following the recent discussion about our acceptance of advertising from the Body Shop ? a company in which Nestle has a 26% stake ? we have talked the issue over with Mike Brady, the Campaigns Director at Baby Milk Action. We have agreed that we will feature a new ?Supporting the Boycott? button on our Home Page (rather than the previous ?Nestle-Free Zone? button), and we will be working with BMA over the next few months to raise awareness of the issues around formula marketing.

Mike says: "Mumsnet continues to be a very active forum for discussion of the Nestlé boycott and wider issues concerned with protecting breastfeeding and protecting babies fed on formula.

"The purpose of the Nestlé boycott is to put pressure on the largest baby food company and the one we find to be the worst when it comes to violating the international marketing requirements for baby foods. Pressure from the boycott has forced some changes, but the company continues to reject our four-point plan for saving infant lives and ultimately ending the boycott. Further pressure is needed. The main target of the boycott is Nescafé coffee, Nestlé's flagship product, but we encourage people to avoid all products from which Nestlé profits. That is the message conveyed by the Nestlé-Free Zone logos, which link to our site and the boycott list.

"We have prepared alternative logos for sites and media channels that wish to raise awareness of the campaign regardless of their own degree of support for the Nestlé boycott. It is important to keep this issue in the public eye as much as possible and we welcome anyone making use of these logos to raise awareness and send traffic to our site. We have no advertising budget ourselves.

"We encourage everyone who is selective in their boycott to avoid all Nestlé products during International Nestlé-Free Week at the end of October and those who do not boycott to give it a go, at least for the week. This year we are also asking people to email Nestlé over its latest global marketing strategy: the company is claiming its baby milk 'protects' babies, even though it know babies fed on formula are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die."

We very much hope to have Mike on to talk about this campaign in more detail some time in the next couple of months.

Thanks to all for your input.

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