Word: infantes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AFIER A seven year battle, a coalition of health, labor and religious groups recently ended boycott of Nestle products after persuading that company to stop sending free supplies of infant formula to Third World hospitals The boycott's immediate success pertains to health, but its lasting impact may be politics. The success of the boycott reemphasizes nonviolent means of confrontation at a time when armed struggle has become the standard in areas across the globe...
...strangely ideological protest that seemed to array impoverished Third World mothers and their babies against a multinational corporation. It went on for 6½ years, but last week it ended. Officials of Nestlé, the biggest supplier of infant formula, and the Infant Formula Action Coalition of Minneapolis, among others, agreed that the boycott of Nestlé products would be stopped if the Swiss company changed its marketing practices...
...other news, the Boston Globe recently reported that the gap between Black and white infant mortality rates has widened, with the rate for Blacks lingering at the level found in many underdeveloped countries. This has a great deal to do with malnutrition and poverty, which the government is hell-bent on increasing by cutting back Food Stamps and other programs. On the question of unemployment, National Public Radio, like many other media outlets, a couple of weeks ago echoed the latest self-congratulations of the government, chirping happily about the "good economic news" that unemployment dropped slightly. A little later...
Doctors agree that the best hope for preventing infection of newborns lies in more careful monitoring of pregnant women with a history of herpes. If active genital infection is detected before labor, a caesarean will generally protect the infant from contagion. For women who know they have been exposed to herpes but have no visible symptoms, a new 24-hour test for herpes should improve detection...
...even a tiny fraction of the waste that is endemic to the American military were diverted to food programs like WIC, hunger would be vastly diminished and infant mortality rates lowered. As things stand, however, the Pentagon is going crazy and the children are going hungry--and dying. As President Eisenhower aptly noted in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...