Alice Ammerman
Alice Ammerman lives in Durham, N.C. and works for the Agricultural Resources Center. Her article, “Nestles Vs. The Newborn” (SUN, no. 35) has been reprinted in two other magazines.
— From August 1978Food First — Beyond The Myth Of Scarcity
Book Excerpt
The world’s hungry people are being thrown into ever more direct competition with the well-fed and the over-fed. The fact that something is grown near your home in abundance, or that your country’s natural and financial resources were consumed in producing it, or even that you yourself toiled to grow it will no longer mean that you will be likely to eat it.
August 1978Nestles Vs. The Newborn
Death, Malnutrition, And The Infant Formula Boom
To the poor, uneducated mother, an obvious solution is stretching the formula by diluting it with more water than is specified on the package, the label of which she probably cannot read. A study conducted in Barbados in 1969 showed that 82% of the mothers were “stretching” the formula. They were making a 4-day can last between 5 days and 3 weeks.
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