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sad baby
guess it made good sense to stay home last night--
Emily was cranky and sick. We went through a number of clothes changes with the explody butt. She also got up at 4 and wouldn't go back to sleep until 6:30 and then only for a bit. After that she was cranky and crying and crawling from room to room yelling at things--I felt bad for her but it's funny to see her yell at bookcases.
Ninny isn't feeling well today. High blood sugar is what it looks like. I'm trying to get her to eat some chicken but she says no to even that. Hopefully when this morning's insulin shot hits she'll feel more like eating. She and Teatime go to the vet a week from tomorrow-he for his annual and shots, she for a diabetes check and another attempt to teach us how to test her sugar. We can't get the blood needed out of her wee bat ears to test, even with the monitor that needs only a bit of blood. When we try we prick, then have to squeeze and squeeze and it hurts and she gets upset and we give up. They are going to give us bigger lancets.
and thank god for peapod.
Oh..does anyone know if the nestle boycott is still meaningful? I would like to try miss em on good start, but what happened in the 70's with formula in third world countries and lots of dead babies --well I try my best to use our money where it matters, even if it's a small gesture. Which is also why I haven't bought anything at Nike, the Gap or Old Navy (and they do have great baby clothes and maternity clothes) for going on three years now--since I read about their truly evil manufacturing practices in the book NO LOGO. It's one thing to take the business overseas, it's another thing to practice child slave labor,fire pregnant women just because they are pregnant and lock people in for 48 hour shifts--people die working for these companies and it's too much to overlook. I know I can't address every human rights violation or we'd be living in the hinterlands making our own clothes and churning butter, but I will do what I can do.
Emily was cranky and sick. We went through a number of clothes changes with the explody butt. She also got up at 4 and wouldn't go back to sleep until 6:30 and then only for a bit. After that she was cranky and crying and crawling from room to room yelling at things--I felt bad for her but it's funny to see her yell at bookcases.
Ninny isn't feeling well today. High blood sugar is what it looks like. I'm trying to get her to eat some chicken but she says no to even that. Hopefully when this morning's insulin shot hits she'll feel more like eating. She and Teatime go to the vet a week from tomorrow-he for his annual and shots, she for a diabetes check and another attempt to teach us how to test her sugar. We can't get the blood needed out of her wee bat ears to test, even with the monitor that needs only a bit of blood. When we try we prick, then have to squeeze and squeeze and it hurts and she gets upset and we give up. They are going to give us bigger lancets.
and thank god for peapod.
Oh..does anyone know if the nestle boycott is still meaningful? I would like to try miss em on good start, but what happened in the 70's with formula in third world countries and lots of dead babies --well I try my best to use our money where it matters, even if it's a small gesture. Which is also why I haven't bought anything at Nike, the Gap or Old Navy (and they do have great baby clothes and maternity clothes) for going on three years now--since I read about their truly evil manufacturing practices in the book NO LOGO. It's one thing to take the business overseas, it's another thing to practice child slave labor,fire pregnant women just because they are pregnant and lock people in for 48 hour shifts--people die working for these companies and it's too much to overlook. I know I can't address every human rights violation or we'd be living in the hinterlands making our own clothes and churning butter, but I will do what I can do.
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I wish there was one site I trusted to give me all the info. nologo.org is the closest...but I'm also kinda strict about what constitutes a boycott --like NO changing what you are asking for after they have caved into your demands (which sadly, lots of lefty causes do).
Nestle
Anyway, that's cool that you have a friend interested in the Nestle
boycott. There is still a worldwide boycott of Nestle over their
marketing of Infant formula. Basically, Infact worked for years with the
World Health Organization to develop a code for safe marketing of formula
and when that was complete we called off the boycott and moved on.
However...other groups that we worked with continued to monitor Nestle's
adherence with the code and recalled the boycott a few years later. One
of these groups is IBFAN (International baby food action network) Here's
what their website says:
Nestlé is the target of worldwide criticism for marketing baby foods in
ways that violate marketing requirements adopted to protect infant
health. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.5 million infants
die around the world every year because they are not breastfed. Where
water is unsafe a bottle-fed child is up to 25 times more likely to die
as a result of diarrhea than a breastfed child. Even in the most hygienic
of conditions a breastfed child is less likely to become ill in both the
short and long term.
If she wants more info I would check out their website and in particular
this link:
http://www.ibfan.org/english/news/briefing/jbc.html