1977 Nestlé boycott

Boycott of Nestlé corporation January 2026January 2026 A boycott against the Swiss-based multinational food and drink processing corporation Nestlé was launched in the United States on 4 July 1977. The boycott expanded into Europe in the early 1980s and was prompted by concerns about Nestlé's aggressive marketing of infant formulas as substitutes for breast milk, particularly in underdeveloped countries.https://www.newspapers.com/image/191491849/ Baby formulas linked to infant deaths overseas September 9, 1978 Minneapolis Star December 5, 2019 subscriptionhttps://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6#the-bad-publicity-sparked-a-global-boycott-of-nestl-11 Every Parent Should Know The Scandalous impact Of Infant Formula Krasny Jill June 25, 2012 Business Insider December 5, 2019 The boycott has been cancelled and renewed because of the business practices of Nestlé and other substitute manufacturers monitored by the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN).https://www.newspapers.com/image/496994800 Simple formula urged for healthy children Macdonald Theresa October 24, 1987 Regina Leader-Post December 5, 2019 subscriptionhttps://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/27/us/nestle-boycott-being-suspended.html Nestle Boycott Being Suspended January 27, 1984 New York Times December 5, 2019 subscription Breast milk is the best nutrition source for infants, and this has long been understood as a settled scientific consensus by public health experts and paediatric specialists.Lessen Rachelle Kavanagh Katherine 2015 Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2212267214018760 Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics en 115 3 444–449 10.1016/j.jand.2014.12.014 25721389 subscriptionPiwoz Ellen G. Huffman Sandra L. 2015 The Impact of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes on WHO-Recommended Breastfeeding Practices Food and Nutrition Bulletin en 36 4 373–386 10.1177/0379572115602174 26314734 43304804 0379-5721 freeMartin Camilia R. Ling Pei-Ra Blackburn George L. 2016 Review of Infant Feeding: Key Features of Breast Milk and Infant Formula Nutrients en 8 5 279 10.3390/nu8050279 2072-6643 4882692 27187450 free The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends infants to be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives,World Health Organization. (2002). Infant and young child nutrition, Global strategy on infant and young child feeding, Report by the Secretariat. https://apps.who.int/gb/archive/pdf_files/WHA55/ea5515.pdf and nutritional gaps must be filled if breastfeeding is not possible.Martucci Jessica Back to the breast: natural motherhood and breastfeeding in America The University of Chicago Press 2015 978-0-226-28803-1 The Nestlé boycott can be seen as special in a sense that it linked human rights regulations and humanitarian activism with corporate responsibility and market capitalism. One analysis argued consumers were basically acting as global citizens by aiding people in need outside their close communities, in this case mothers in developing countries, "using the marketplace not as a way of generating revenue, but rather as a space for protest".Sasson Tehila 2016 Milking the Third World? Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott The American Historical Review 121 4 1196–1224 10.1093/ahr/121.4.1196 Baby milk controversy The International Baby Food Action Network and Save the Children have stated that the promotion of infant formula over breastfeeding leads to health problems and deaths among infants in less economically developed countries. What is the Problem? IBFAN http://www.ibfan.org/site2005/Pages/article.php?art_id=23&iui=1 June 6, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070426200414/http://www.ibfan.org/site2005/Pages/article.php?art_id=23&iui=1 April 26, 2007 A Generation On: Baby milk marketing still putting children's lives at risk Save the Children report, May 2007 (pdf). There are three problems that can arise when poor mothers in developing countries switch to formula as well as one list of benefits of breast milk: Sanitation: Formula must be mixed with water, which is often impure or not potable in poor countries, leading to disease in vulnerable infants.Milking it Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian, May 15, 2007 Due to low literacy rates in developing nations, many mothers are not aware of the sanitation methods necessary to prepare bottles. Even mothers able to read in their native language may be unable to read the language in which sterilization directions are written. Although some mothers can understand the sanitation standards required, they often do not have the means to perform them: fuel to boil water, electric (or other reliable) light to enable sterilisation at night. UNICEF estimates that a formula-fed child living in disease-ridden and unhygienic conditions is between six and 25 times more likely to die of diarrhea and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than a breastfed child. Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index_breastfeeding.html June 8, 2007 Nutritional value: Many poor mothers use less formula for the baby than is required, in order to make a container of formula last longer. As a result, some infants receive inadequate nutrition from weak solutions of formula.http://www.worldconcern.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=1556&srcid=596 https://web.archive.org/web/20070928034941/http://www.worldconcern.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=1556&srcid=596 September 28, 2007 World Concern - Witness the Transformation December 21, 2016 Breast milk has many natural benefits lacking in formula. Nutrients and antibodies are passed to the baby while hormones are released into the mother's body.Breastfeeding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/ January 23, 2007 Breastfed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illnesses, including diarrhea, bacterial meningitis, gastroenteritis, ear infection, and respiratory infection.Gartner LM Breastfeeding and the use of human milk Pediatrics 2005 496–506 115 2 10.1542/peds.2004-2491 15687461 vanc 1 Morton J Lawrence RA Naylor AJ O'Hare D Schanler RJ Eidelman AI American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Breastfeeding Mothers and Children Benefit from Breastfeeding http://www.4woman.gov/breastfeeding/index.cfm?page=227 4woman.gov https://web.archive.org/web/20090316071541/http://www.4woman.gov/breastfeeding/index.cfm?page=227 March 16, 2009 27 February 2009 "Gastroenteritis". Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. February 1, 2003. Retrieved November 21, 2006. Breast milk contains the right amount of the nutrients essential for neuronal (brain and nerve) development. Atkinson, S Bo Lönnerdal Proteins and non-protein nitrogens in human milk CRC Press 1989 131 0-8493-6795-6 The bond between baby and mother can be strengthened during breastfeeding. Frequent and exclusive breastfeeding can also delay the return of fertility, which can help women in developing countries to space their births. Comparison of Effectiveness Planned Parenthood April 2005 http://www.plannedparenthood.org/birth-control-pregnancy/birth-control/effectiveness.htm August 12, 2006 October 12, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20061012053952/http://www.plannedparenthood.org/birth-control-pregnancy/birth-control/effectiveness.htm , which cites RA Hatcher 2000 Contraceptive Technology 18th Ardent Media New York 0-9664902-6-6 vanc Trussel J Stewart F 2 The World Health Organization recommends that, in the majority of cases, babies should be exclusively breast fed for the first six months, and then given complementary foods in addition to breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond. World Health Organization, "Global strategy for infant and young child feeding," section titled "EXERCISING OTHER FEEDING OPTIONS" November 24, 2001 Preserving milk supply: The practice of relying on free formula in maternity wards frequently means the mother loses the ability to make her own milk and must buy formula (as stated in the following paragraph). Advocacy groups and charities have accused Nestlé of unethical methods of promoting infant formula over breast milk to poor mothers in developing countries.http://www.InFactCanada.ca/nestle_boycott_product.htm Nestle Products to Boycott December 21, 2016History of the campaign https://web.archive.org/web/20100703014622/http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/history.html July 3, 2010 Baby Milk Action Group For example, IBFAN claims that Nestlé distributes free formula samples to hospitals and maternity wards; after leaving the hospital, the formula is no longer free, but because the supplementation has interfered with lactation, the family must continue to buy the formula. IBFAN also alleges that Nestlé uses "humanitarian aid" to create markets, does not label its products in a language appropriate to the countries where they are sold, and offers gifts and sponsorship to influence health workers to promote its products.How breastfeeding is undermined IBFAN http://www.ibfan.org/english/issue/bfundermined01.html June 6, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070415171525/http://www.ibfan.org/english/issue/bfUndermined01.html April 15, 2007 The company not only made use of mass media promotion (e.g. billboards and posters) and sample distributions, they also had sales people dressed as so-called "milk nurses" to visit mothers in hospital and at their home to praise formula and its benefits.Muller Mike The Baby Killer. A War on Want investigation into the promotion and sale of powdered baby milks in the Third World. War on Want. 1974 LondonPost James E. 1985 Assessing the Nestlé Boycott: Corporate Accountability and Human Rights http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2307/41165133 California Management Review en 27 2 113–131 10.2307/41165133 41165133 155057976 0008-1256 subscription Nestlé justified its actions by rejecting the responsibility for e.g. the lack of clean water in many developing countries and further argued with freedom of consumer choice, which in the company's opinion allows for formula products to be sold in developing markets.Zelman Nancy 1990-01-01 The Nestle Infant Formula Controversy: Restricting the Marketing Practices of Multinational Corporations in the Third World https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/globe/vol3/iss2/13 Global Business & Development Law Journal 3 2 697 1936-3931 History 1970s Nestlé's marketing strategy was first written about in New Internationalist magazine in 1973 and in a booklet called The Baby Killer, published by the British NGO War On Want in 1974. The report helped raise concern over marketing practices in developing countries and served as the starting point of the so-called Baby Killer campaign. Nestlé started a legal suit in Switzerland when the booklet was published in German language entitled "Nestlé kills Babies". After a two-year trial, the court found in favour of Nestlé because they could not be held responsible for the infant deaths 'in terms of criminal law'.Sethi, S. Prakash Multinational Corporations and the Impact of Public Advocacy on Corporate Strategy: Nestlé and the Infant Formula Controversy Journal of International Business Studies 1994 658–660 25 3 10.1057/jibs.1994.41 155364 166328342 Because the defendants were only fined 300 Swiss Francs (just over US$400, adjusted for inflation),http://www.forecasts.org/data/data/EXSZUS.htm Historical Data for Switzerland / U.S. Foreign Exchange Rate December 21, 2016 and Judge Jürg Sollberger commented that Nestlé "must modify its publicity methods fundamentally", TIME magazine declared this a "moral victory" for the defendants.The Formula Flap TIME Magazine, Jul. 12, 1976 This led to similar court challenges brought against other milk companies in the U.S. spearheaded by the Roman Catholic order Sisters of the Precious Blood in conjunction with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nestle-baby-milk-scandal-food-industry-standards Nestlé baby milk scandal has grown up but not gone away Mike Muller February 13, 2013 December 21, 2016 The Guardian The widespread publicity led to the launch of the boycott in Minneapolis, USA, by the Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT)Johnson Douglas A. 2020 Confronting Corporate Power: Strategies and Phases of the Nestle Boycott http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0890334420964752 Journal of Human Lactation en 36 4 756–765 10.1177/0890334420964752 33035126 222256324 0890-3344 subscription and this boycott soon spread to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Europe as more and more people were concerned by Nestlé's marketing practices to promote baby formula instead of breast milk, especially in the developing world. In May 1978, the US Senate held a public hearing into the promotion of breast milk substitutes in developing countries and joined calls for a Marketing Code. In 1979, WHO and UNICEF hosted an international meeting that called for the development of an international code of marketing, as well as action on other fronts to improve infant and early child feeding practices. The International Baby Food Action Network was formed by six of the campaigning groups at this meeting. 1980s and 1990s In 1981, the 34th World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body for WHO, adopted Resolution WHA34.22 which includes the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. The Code covers infant formula and other milk products, foods and beverages, when marketed or otherwise represented to be suitable as a partial or total replacement of breast milk. It bans the promotion of breast milk substitutes and gives health workers the responsibility for advising parents. It limits manufacturing companies to the provision of scientific and factual information to health workers and sets forth labeling requirements. The International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes WHO 1981 http://www.WHO.int/nutrition/publications/code_english.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20060324165724/http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/code_english.pdf March 24, 2006 June 6, 2007 The US voted against the adoption.About IBFAN – The International Baby Food Action Network https://www.ibfan.org/about-ibfan/ 2022-05-30 en In 1984, boycott coordinators met with Nestlé, which agreed to create an independent agency, the Nestlé Infant Formula Audit Commission (IFAC), and to sign an agreement where they pledged to fully implement the Code. The boycott was then officially suspended.Gershon Livia 2018-07-20 The Continuing Controversy Over Baby Formula https://daily.jstor.org/the-continuing-controversy-over-baby-formula/ 2022-05-30 JSTOR Daily en-US In 1988, a second phase of the boycott started as IBFAN alleged that formula companies were flooding health facilities in the developing world with free and low-cost supplies, and the boycott was relaunched the following year. In May 1999, a ruling against Nestlé was issued by the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Nestlé claimed in an anti-boycott advertisement that it markets infant formula "ethically and responsibly". The ASA found that Nestlé could not support this nor other claims in the face of evidence provided by the campaigning group Baby Milk Action. Ferriman Annabel Advertising Standards Authority finds against Nestlé BMJ February 13, 1999 417 9974443 318 7181 1114895 10.1136/bmj.318.7181.417a 2000s onwards In November 2000, the European Parliament invited IBFAN, UNICEF, and Nestlé to present evidence to a public hearing before the Development and Cooperation Committee. Evidence was presented by the IBFAN group from Pakistan and UNICEF's legal officer commented on Nestlé's failure to bring its policies into line with the World Health Assembly Resolutions. Nestlé declined an invitation to attend, claiming scheduling conflicts, although it sent a representative of the auditing company it had commissioned to produce a report on its Pakistan operation. European Parliament public hearing on Nestlé's baby food marketing Breast Feeding Promotion Network of India November 22, 2000 http://www.bpni.org/Press_Releases/pr-nov.22,2000.pdf June 8, 2007 MEPs shocked as Nestlé and Adidas snub Public Hearing on corporate responsibility Baby Milk Action November 23, 2000 http://www.ibfan.org/english/news/press/press23nov00.html June 8, 2007 April 15, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070415142048/http://www.ibfan.org/english/news/press/press23nov00.html European Parliament Committee on Development Nestlé http://www.BabyMilk.nestle.com/News/All+Countries/Other/European+Parliament+Committee+on+Development.htm June 7, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927020154/http://www.babymilk.nestle.com/News/All%2BCountries/Other/European%2BParliament%2BCommittee%2Bon%2BDevelopment.htm September 27, 2007 Throughout the years, Nestlé has claimed that it is in full compliance with the International Code.The "International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes" http://www.BabyMilk.nestle.com/Who+Code+Issues/Nestle+Code+Compliance/Nestle+code+compliance.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070516200307/http://www.babymilk.nestle.com/Who%2BCode%2BIssues/Nestle%2BCode%2BCompliance/Nestle%2Bcode%2Bcompliance.htm May 16, 2007 June 6, 2007 Nestlé In 2001, for example, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, at the time CEO of Nestlé, stated: "we also carry out annual audits on WHO Code compliance with a sample of Nestlé companies, and we investigate any substantiated claims made by those who believe we have broken the Code.... If we find that the Code has been deliberately violated, we take disciplinary action."Foreword by Peter Brabeck http://www.BabyMilk.nestle.com/Developping+World/Foreword/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070409050111/http://www.babymilk.nestle.com/Developping%2BWorld/Foreword/ April 9, 2007 June 11, 2007 Nestlé The company maintained that many of the allegations are unsubstantiated, out of date, or use IBFAN's own non-standard interpretation of the Code.WHO Code Violation Allegations http://www.babymilk.nestle.com/Who+Code+Issues/Allegations/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070409144431/http://www.babymilk.nestle.com/Who%2BCode%2BIssues/Allegations/ April 9, 2007 June 6, 2007 Nestlé In May 2011, the debate over Nestlé's unethical marketing of infant formula was relaunched in the Asia-Pacific region. Nineteen leading Laos-based international NGOs, including Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE International, Plan International and World Vision have launched a boycott of Nestlé and written an open letter to the company.Letter from NGOs to Nestlé http://info.babymilkaction.org/sites/info.babymilkaction.org/files/Aid%20Agencies%20in%20Laos%20refuse%20to%20apply%20for%20Nestle%20cash_30%20May%202011.pdf 2014-09-05 Among other unethical practices, the NGOs criticised the lack of labelling in Laos and the provision of incentives to doctors and nurses to promote the use of infant formula.The "LAOS: NGOs flay Nestlé's infant formula strategy June 23, 2011 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=93040 November 26, 2014 An independent audit of Nestlé's marketing practices in Laos was commissioned by Nestlé and carried out by Bureau Veritas in late 2011. The audit found that "the requirements of the WHO Code and Lao PDR Decree are well embedded throughout the business", but that "promotional materials in 4% of the retail outlets visited" violated either the Lao PDR Decree or the WHO Code.Bureau Veritas report http://www.nestle.com/asset-library/Documents/R_and_D/Compliance/Independent_Assurance_Statement_by_Bureau_Veritas_Laos.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20160203234414/http://www.nestle.com/asset-library/documents/r_and_d/compliance/independent_assurance_statement_by_bureau_veritas_laos.pdf February 3, 2016 In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by "mothers [in low and middle-income countries] without clean water sources", with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.Mortality from Nestlé's Marketing of Infant Formula in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Jesse K. Anttila-Hughes, Lia C.H. Fernald, Paul J. Gertler, Patrick Krause, Eleanor Tsai, and Bruce Wydick. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). March 2018, revised July 2023. In 2024, a report by Swiss nonprofit Public Eye and IBFAN stated that Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food sold in lower- and middle-income countries compared to healthier versions sold in affluent markets.Jeong Andrew 2024-04-24 Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food in poorer countries, report finds https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/23/nestle-sugar-baby-food-childhood-obesity/ 2024-07-07 Washington Post en-US 0190-8286 Current status The boycott is still present 2026 yes.https://www.ibfan.org/tag/nestle-boycott/ Nestlé Boycott International Baby Food Action Network 2024-09-09https://www.hwunion.com/pageassets/about-us/policies-and-references/Nestle-Boycott-Policy.pdf Nestlé Boycott Policy Herriot-Watt University Student Union 2024-09-09https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/retailers/five-unethical-companies Five Unethical Companies Hunt Tim 2024-08-08 Stanford University Magazine 2024-09-09 Nestlé also officially states on their website that it "follow[s] the WHO Code as implemented by national governments everywhere in the world".Why was a Nestlé boycott launched? https://www.nestle.com/ask-nestle/our-company/answers/nestle-boycott 2022-05-30 Nestlé Global en The company states that it updates its marketing policy, that it reports on compliance on an annual basis, and that it set up a whistleblower scheme.Nestlé struggles to win over baby formula critics https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/milk-for-older-babies_nestl%C3%A9-struggles-to-win-over-infant-formula-critics/45473338 2022-05-30 SWI swissinfo.ch January 10, 2020 en Nestlé states that it is "committed not to interfere with mothers' desire to breastfeed and to protect them from inappropriate marketing practices by actively supporting breastfeeding".Infant formula https://www.nestle.com/aboutus/breastfeeding-nutrition/baby-milk 2022-05-30 Nestlé Global en Critics state that Nestlé continues to be accused of malpractice.2018-02-01 Nestlé under fire for marketing claims on baby milk formulas http://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/01/nestle-under-fire-for-marketing-claims-on-baby-milk-formulas 2022-05-30 the Guardian en2018-02-27 How formula milk firms target mothers who can least afford it http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/27/formula-milk-companies-target-poor-mothers-breastfeeding 2022-05-30 the Guardian en Data from 2020 indicates that 136 WHO member states had established some legal measures related to the Code from 1981, however, only few fully reflect the Code.World Health Organisation. (2020). Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes: National Implementation of the International Code, Status Report 2020, Summary. https://www.unicef.org/media/69646/file/Marketing-of-breast-milk-substitutes-status-report-2020-summary.pdf The report indicates a gap in many countries' legislation. IBFAN continues to be an international network, encompassing more than 270 groups in over 160 countries who push for implementations of the marketing of breast-milk substitutes Code and relevant resolutions. The overall goal remains: marketing baby food should not have negative impacts on infants' health.Our History – The International Baby Food Action Network https://www.ibfan.org/our-history/ 2022-05-30 en In 2024, a new controversy arose when Nestlé was criticized for adding sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products in certain countries.https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q898 Nestlé accused of double standards over added sugar in baby products sold in poorer countries Thornton Jacqui 2024-04-11 BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.) 385 q898 10.1136/bmj.q898 38636986 2024-09-09 subscription https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/opinion/2024/2024-04/sugar-in-baby-food-why-nestle-needs-to-be-held-to-account-in-africa.html Sugar in baby food: why Nestlé needs to be held to account in Africa Goldstein Susan 2024-04-25 Stanford University Magazine 2024-09-09https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/04/19/what-is-the-sugar-scandal-hitting-nestle-and-what-happens-now What is the sugar scandal hitting Nestlé and what happens now? Elci Aylin 2024-04-19 Euronews 2024-09-09 In September 2026, The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has initiated legal action against Nestle India over alleged non-compliance involving its NAN Excella Pro Stage 1 and Lactogen Pro 1 infant nutrition products, over their promotion and claims on e-commerce platforms FSSAI flags Nestle infant products over false promotional claims, biotin levels In the media An episode of the TV show The Mark Thomas Comedy Product produced by the British Channel Four in 1999 investigated the boycott and Nestlé's practices concerning baby milk. Mark Thomas attempted to find evidence for claims against Nestlé and to speak to heads of the company. In one portion of the show he received a tin of baby milk from Mozambique. All instructions are in English. 33 languages and dialects are recognised in Mozambique. Portuguese is the official language. However, only about 30% of the population can speak it.http://www.MarkThomasInfo.com/info/series4.asp Home - Mark Thomas Info December 21, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20080929130648/http://www.markthomasinfo.com/info/series4.asp September 29, 2008 In 2001, comedian Robert Newman and actress Emma Thompson called for a boycott of the Perrier Comedy Award, because Perrier is owned by Nestlé. Scott Kirsty Spoof horror writer wins £5,000 Perrier award: Fringe comedy contest soured by baby milk protests The Guardian August 27, 2001 https://www.theguardian.com/edinburghfestival2001/story/0,,543033,00.html June 11, 2007 An alternative competition called the Tap Water Awards was set up the following year. The Tap Water Awards http://www.tapwaterawards.org/ June 11, 2007 June 12, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070612153156/http://www.tapwaterawards.org/ In 2002, authors Germaine Greer and Jim Crace withdrew from the Hay Festival in protest over Nestlé's sponsorship of the event. Writers boycott literary festival BBC News May 27, 2002 https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2010324.stm June 7, 2007 A 2007 article in The Guardian highlighted aggressive marketing practices by Nestlé in Bangladesh. The 2014 film Tigers is based on 1997 Pakistan Nestle infant formula controversy.https://scroll.in/reel/903017/in-emraan-hashmis-tigers-a-fight-against-a-corporation-that-took-12-years-to-hit-the-screens In Emraan Hashmi's 'Tigers', a fight against a corporation that took 12 years to hit the screens Nathan Archana Nov 22, 2018 Scroll 2024-09-09 See also H2NO – an upselling campaign by Coca-Cola to dissuade consumers from ordering tap water drinks at restaurants Controversies of Nestlé References 35em External links "The Baby Killer", full 1973 booklet International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Baby Milk Action https://web.archive.org/web/20080501210743/http://www.babymilkaction.org/ May 1, 2008 Nestlé marketing profile https://web.archive.org/web/20050514181535/http://www.ibfan.org/english/pdfs/btr04/btr04nestle.pdf May 14, 2005 , from Breaking the Rules Stretching the Rules, IBFAN, 2004 Edinburgh University Néstle Boycott Campaign Nestlé's response to the baby milk issue Category:1977 protests Category:1977 controversies in the United States Category:July 1977 in the United States Category:Boycotts of organizations Category:Consumer boycotts Category:Breastfeeding advocacy Boycott Category:Infant formula