A true story about a Nestlé rep in Pakistan pressuring medical professionals to promote formula and he realises babies are dying as a result.
- 5 years ago
A true story about a Nestlé rep in Pakistan pressuring medical professionals to promote formula and he realises babies are dying as a result.
,#India once again took a bold step in releasing an award winning film based on a true story of a #Pakistani salesman from #sialkot named Syed Aamir Raza who fought for 7 years against unjust practice by #NESTLE in the baby products’ industry which led to the death of thousands of infants in Pakistan while other were severely malnourished .
Nestlé whistleblower Syed Aamir Raza Hussain is now a #Mississauga #Canada resident and taxi driver. His former life as a Nestlé formula salesman-turned-whistleblower has been turned into a feature film, "#Tigers", which was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014 but now different version of the film will be releasing on November 2018 on Zee5 in India, but, so far, no local distributor has acquired the rights to the film’s distribution in #Pakistan.Tigers (initially titled White Lies) is directed and written by Academic Award winner from Bosnia "Danis Tanović" and jointly produce by french and Indian production house.
Syed Aamir Raza exposed on how Nestle bribed pediatric doctors and nurses with gifts, and expecting that in return, they would ply new mothers with Nestlé’s formula which led to severely malnourished babies, with sunken faces and twiglike arms.Instead of breast milk, Docters and nurses push Nestle infant formula milk which is mixed with dirty water — which is all that 44 per cent of the Pakistani population can access.
Despite the Syed Aamir Raza best efforts in real life to expose these abuses, he was threatened severely and had to flee his country to Germany 2000 and then to the UK and finally to Canada2004, where he was granted residential status after 6 years and now lives.
During 80s and 90s there was an International outcry against #Nestle's sickeningly cynical, profit-driven, economics-based, inhuman policy of getting new mothers in poor countries to abandon feeding their infants with breast milk and convincing them to switch to formula.
They would send #women #dressed as #nurses into hospitals to "counsel" these women; telling them that #breast-feeding was fine but infant formula added necessary vitamins and minerals, telling them that infant formula was superior to breast-feeding entirely, telling them that mothers and babies in the rich countries used infant formula and look how great things are for them, ... whatever
In this day and age, 830,000 infants are estimated to die each year, due to the lack of breastfeeding. This has been going on since the 1970s. Let's just say 100,000 babies a year have died. Let's say this started in 1970 and ended in the year 2000 (three years after Syed Aamir Raza Hussain quit his job). That's 100,000 babies multiplied by 30 years for 3,000,000 babies !
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,#India once again took a bold step in releasing an award winning film based on a true story of a #Pakistani salesman from #sialkot named Syed Aamir Raza who fought for 7 years against unjust practice by #NESTLE in the baby products’ industry which led to the death of thousands of infants in Pakistan while other were severely malnourished .
Nestlé whistleblower Syed Aamir Raza Hussain is now a #Mississauga #Canada resident and taxi driver. His former life as a Nestlé formula salesman-turned-whistleblower has been turned into a feature film, "#Tigers", which was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014 but now different version of the film will be releasing on November 2018 on Zee5 in India, but, so far, no local distributor has acquired the rights to the film’s distribution in #Pakistan.Tigers (initially titled White Lies) is directed and written by Academic Award winner from Bosnia "Danis Tanović" and jointly produce by french and Indian production house.
Syed Aamir Raza exposed on how Nestle bribed pediatric doctors and nurses with gifts, and expecting that in return, they would ply new mothers with Nestlé’s formula which led to severely malnourished babies, with sunken faces and twiglike arms.Instead of breast milk, Docters and nurses push Nestle infant formula milk which is mixed with dirty water — which is all that 44 per cent of the Pakistani population can access.
Despite the Syed Aamir Raza best efforts in real life to expose these abuses, he was threatened severely and had to flee his country to Germany 2000 and then to the UK and finally to Canada2004, where he was granted residential status after 6 years and now lives.
During 80s and 90s there was an International outcry against #Nestle's sickeningly cynical, profit-driven, economics-based, inhuman policy of getting new mothers in poor countries to abandon feeding their infants with breast milk and convincing them to switch to formula.
They would send #women #dressed as #nurses into hospitals to "counsel" these women; telling them that #breast-feeding was fine but infant formula added necessary vitamins and minerals, telling them that infant formula was superior to breast-feeding entirely, telling them that mothers and babies in the rich countries used infant formula and look how great things are for them, ... whatever
In this day and age, 830,000 infants are estimated to die each year, due to the lack of breastfeeding. This has been going on since the 1970s. Let's just say 100,000 babies a year have died. Let's say this started in 1970 and ended in the year 2000 (three years after Syed Aamir Raza Hussain quit his job). That's 100,000 babies multiplied by 30 years for 3,000,000 babies !
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