Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

Acloba — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:19:36 GMT

I'm an American now living in the Philippines. The power Nestle has over the local market is very obvious. Our supermarkets dedicate several meters of shelf space to Nestle products but just a few centimeters to competitors' brands. Nestle was also involved recently in a nasty try to eliminate one local competitor with a very small share of the market. One Filipino company began manufacturing a chocolate drink similar to Nestle's Milo. You and I know that all that stuff is just crap anyway, just sugar and chocolate flavor but marketed as a source of daily vitamins. But still, the competitor has just as much right to enter the market as Nestle does. Nestle got (paid?) a judge to issue an order to pull all the competitor's product off the shelves on the pretext that it was an unsafe product. The small local competitor had to spend lots of money on lawyers to scramble back into the market, and restock shelves. They did get back into the market but I'm sure the cost was very high for them. Nasty, mean-spirited, shameless folks those people at Nestle!

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

Marnie1 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:45:08 GMT

This is to Kcraia... Its not that difficult to make organic baby food. Buy your organic fruit, cut it up, put it in a blender with some rice milk, and you've got a baby smoothie. Anything organic... diced avocado with a little garlic powder... cooked mashed squash... They eat the same thing you do. I breastfed my baby for a year, and started supplementing food for milk, and he never looked back--he was so ready!! Just don't try meat--they don't seem to go for it until about 2 years old (that should tell you something). Babies have plain and simple tastes--they don't need or want a gourmet meal with a lot of flavors. Let them enjoy the pure taste of the food--one ingredient is all they need. (Plus this is the way to watch out for allergies)

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

vegmama — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:18:25 GMT

Babies will do just fine, thrive in fact, on breastmilk alone for at least the first year of life, possibly up to 2 years. My baby was not interested in solids until 11 months. At that time he was old enough to feed finger foods or soft food mashed with a fork. I know many other families who have also skipped baby food altogether. What could be easier?

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

Amanda Rose — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:59:31 GMT

I have boycotted Nestle since I was a little girl because of their marketing of formula in developing countries. Back then it was pretty easy, particularly for a little girl in the 70s whose mom was an organic gardener. But with the acquisitions since, this is a very difficult boycott to follow for those who buy processed foods and make-up products. Luckily, I buy neither and don't have to work real hard to boycott. With this new acquisition I'll have to keep my eyes open a bit more. I don't buy Gerber baby food anyway, but Gerber does have some other products I might otherwise stumble upon.

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

pinkskittles — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:46:57 GMT

How about... instead of trying to pick the "best babyfood" for your baby, you just use ACTUAL food and blend it up or make it yourself? It's much healthier than feeding your baby jarred things for its entire baby stage... That's not a way to promote health.

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

Dr. David Spitz — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:31:44 GMT

This shouldn't surprise anyone. Most of the baby food should not be eaten anyway. Maybe this will create enough 'noise' that people will actually start to read the ingredient list on their baby's food jar.

Let's only imagine what will be in the baby carrots food jars?

high fructose corn syrup
water
sugar
cocoa
nutrasweet
palm oil
artificial coloring
artificial flavoring
carrot roots

I recently, out of curiosity looked at the ingredients for infant formula. I actually got a little faint thinking of the millions of babies drinking it. The main ingredients are basically corn syrup solids, or high fructose corn syrup and even vegetable oil. It's really scary that a mother and father could read that and still give it to their kids.

This is one we all have to watch carefully and not let them doop the public with feeding poison to the babies.

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

Alexandra_203 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:59:41 GMT

On the local news channel a couple was saying how they found a frog on their baby (gerber) food. This was about three years ago.

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

annapavlova42 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:40:14 GMT

We can talk and talk and talk until we are blue in the face. But is anything being done to stop all this madness? I am so heart sick for the younger , newer, and up and coming generation.

I have been saying for the last 15 years, "this is not my world".

I would really like to know who is really making all these decisions, and why. Why all this distruction. Are we to be continually experimented with? For what reason?

Oh yes, I can guess, but I would really like to know the REAL truth. Wouldn't you?

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

mmc88121 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:37:41 GMT

I have trouble seeing the people who encourage us to put chocolate flavored sugar into our pasturized milk encouraging mothers to do the healthy thing for their children. This company is up in a league with Merck for the underhanded way it is operating.

Mary

re: Look Out For Your Baby's Health -- Nestle Buys Gerber

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:13:17 GMT

You can be assured the dominance in this prepared and highly processed (the bioavailablity of nutrients is VERY questionable at best) branded sector, is all but assured, with such an acquisition.

This is the same company controlling the lion's share of bottled water brands globally.

You will see an aggressive and strategically rolled-out campaign (over years) to convince mothers not to breast feed (though breast feeding is vastly empirically, nutritionally, and medically better for infants and mothers than ANY formula product recommended for the FULL FIRST TWO YEARS of any child).

This company will also try 'convenience' ploys on unsuspecting, and sleep deprived, parents, with discount heavy couponing (print or web sites), among other slick marketing tricks, 'for the busy and working mother'...

Such processed brands are just one more example of nutrient depletion starting in pre conception, pre natal and post delivery.

Is is any wonder correct and healthy intestinal and digestive tract formation is harmed in most infants, with such bioavailable dumb-downed food products?

Poor intestinal tract formation leads to juvenile hypoglycemia, diabetes, cardio vascular problems, renal problems and obesity.