Sunday, April 15, 2007

Bad News For Babies and Mothers

Nestle is buying Gerber from Novartis for 5.5 billion. Gerber had its own problems, but Novartis was making efforts to move it more into compliance with the WHO Code - we can now kiss those efforts good-bye, I suspect. It is hard enough to boycott Nestle for its fatal-to-babies marketing ways with all the many, many companies it owns, but now it will be even harder for families to make the effort...sigh.

2 comments:

Saints and Spinners said...

Urgh. The last name of a friend of mine is Gerber, and we like to joke about her "Gerber babies." I don't think she will be happy to hear about this latest development, either.

Veloute said...

This is not good.