Suruthi
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Suruthi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The pamphlet was a powerful attack on the baby formula industry and revealed the devastating impact that Nestlé had made in the developing world.
All of the questionable sales and marketing practices Nestlé carried out were finally exposed.
Something which is not easy to reverse.
So then, once the mothers had stopped lactating, their infants were now completely dependent on the baby formula.
And because baby formula was quite expensive after you'd run out of your free trial, these mothers would then have to try and make it last as long as possible by diluting it as much as they could.
And once they ran out of baby formula, they often couldn't afford to buy any more, and by that point also unable to produce their own breast milk.
So that meant mothers had no choice but to resort to feeding their own children cornstarch or whole milk.
What's more, many of these mothers lived in impoverished conditions without access to clean drinking water, sterilised equipment or refrigeration, all of which are required to safely use baby formula.
Also, the packaging and instructions for Nestle's baby formula were never in the local language.
They were either in English or they were in French.
And as a result of this, in the late 1960s, medical authorities began reporting a huge rise in malnourished infants, correlating to the rise in the use of baby formula.
In 1977, US campaigners launched a boycott against Nestle and quickly gained traction in Britain, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and much more of Europe.
This boycott is somewhat unique, as it wasn't about labour abuses or creating political pressure against a government.
The Nestle boycott linked human rights regulations and humanitarian activism with corporate responsibility.
The goal was to limit the power of huge multinationals like Nestle and force them to create a more ethical form of market capitalism.
However, even though the WHO didn't have the means to enforce this, it did manage to apply enough pressure to get Nestle to change its marketing strategies.
For the time being, anyway.
In 1984, Nestle agreed to implement the code, signed an unprecedented agreement with the non-governmental critics, and ended the seven-year international boycott.
Part of the code meant that Nestle wasn't allowed to claim that baby formula was the equivalent of breast milk.
But in the years since Nestle signed that agreement, they have been found to be in breach of it numerous times all over the world.
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