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How Nestle Starved A Bunch of Babies

Behind the Bastards

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Why Is It Dangerous to Use Formula in Africa?

The sixties and seventies were a time of rapid globalization and development in africa particularly. Many people were obsessed with modernizing and adopting new western behaviors and products. Nesle's promotion of formula as an easier, quicker way of feeding appealed to these women. In many of the developing places where it was being hawked, the hardest lacked access to clean water. And even if a mob can make all that work, there's still the issue o very little cool running water in most of these communities.

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