While Dr. Gordon acknowledges all of the good Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation have done, he criticizes them for their “blind investments.”

All experts agree that non-breastfed infants in the Third World die at a rate much higher than those which are exclusively breastfed.

The number of preventable deaths is somewhere between 50 and 75% of babies who die of diarrhea and other infections….

Gates invests in Nestlé. Nestlé has persisted in egregious violations of the World Health Organization’s Code for marketing infant formula. Over one million babies die worldwide because Nestlé and other multinationals promote artificial feeding (formula) to the detriment of efforts to inform mothers of the risks of not breastfeeding. International boycotts have only temporarily decreased Nestlé’s efforts.

Dr. Gordon chides Bill Gates for taking the low road and refusing to become socially responsible in how philanthropic funds are invested.

What do you think? Do you boycott Nestlé?

Thanks to the author of Genetics and Health for the tip about this story.

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