Bottle babies

Duration: 26

Year Published: 1976

Creator: Tricontinental Film Center

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A documentary on the spreading practice in the Third World of feeding babies powdered infant formula instead of breast-feeding them.Third World mothers have been influenced by the widespread advertising of Western companies that assures them of powdered milk's benefits. Those babies who do not die suffer severe malnutrition and experience physical and intellectual damage. , Documentary reporting the effects of marketing in the western world and the increases in infant deaths and illness when, instead of breastfeeding, Third World mothers use powdered milk in bottles to feed their children.

Complete Record: A documentary on the spreading practice in the Third World of feeding babies powdered infant formula instead of breast-feeding them.Third World mothers have been influenced by the widespread advertising of Western companies that assures them of powdered milk's benefits. Those babies who do not die suffer severe malnutrition and experience physical and intellectual damage. , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.