email me a couple of other links, would you, so I can see which ones work here!

I am surprised you were allowed to see what’s on the Enfamil site… There are WHO violations all over the place! Did you see the illustration of a duck and how half of it is blurry and half of it is clear, and they claim that without their DHA formula, your baby will see the duck like the blurry side?! WTF is that about?! I tried to find the study that proves this to be true, and the one they referenced said NOTHING about eyesight, so where do they get off making such dishonest claims? It’s just snake oil!

Makes me wonder, though, why Enfamil would allow U.K. visitors to see their site… Isn’t that a violation of some kind? Or do you see a different site from the one I see? Is Enfamil sold in the U.K.? If it’s not, that’s probably why you can see it… And explains why Nestle had to tone theirs down — because Nestle does sell in the U.K…. Veeeeeery interesting.

That was brilliant. Thank you for sharing.

“Those who make claims about infant formula that intentionally undermine women’s confidence in breastfeeding are not to be regarded as “clever entrepreneurs just doing their job,” but as human rights violators of the worst sort.” –Stephen Lewis, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, April 1999

I think most people are not outraged by deceptive marketing of artificial baby milk because our entire culture and society is structured around the right — indeed, the mandate — to get as wealthy as possible, and devil take the hindmost. Lip service and hot air notwithstanding, our culture really doesn’t value babies nor the reproductive, caregiving labor that is required for them to grow into properly socialized adults.

Yes, it’s crappy the site even exists, that any formula marketing exists… Obviously people know formula is an option if breastfeeding doesn’t work out; people don’t need to be banged over the head with seductive marketing luring them to formula-feed when breastfeeding could potentially work out… However, what really jumped out at me about the Cow & Gate site was how different and TAME it was compared to American formula websites. OMG, if people in the U.K. could see how completely over-the-top exaggerated the marketing here in the U.S. is, they would probably revolt FOR us!! (I believe people in the U.K. are blocked from seeing American formula manufacturer sites… Please, U.K. visitors, confirm this for me if you can. Here’s a link to an American formula site: https://www.enfamil.com/app/iwp/demand/enterSessionAction.do?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&dm=enf&ls=0. Can you see it?)

Here’s a good question: how come we’re not outraged??? It’s our country, and we are LETTING the formula manufacturers lie to the public by allowing their deceptive marketing tactics to continue. I’m not even sure where to begin with this…