The Financial Times is reporting that a study by an ‘NGO’ (‘the International Baby Food Action Network’) has concluded that Nestle and Danone breached World Health Organization codes governing the promotion of their products in both Togo and Burkina Faso”. The FT notes claims in the NGO report that “the companies broke the rules by providing mothers with free samples of milk powder, contravening labeling standards, and distributing gifts such as pens, stethoscopes and notepads branded with company names.”

What arrogant and patronizing nonsense – and it’s not confined to Togo and Burkina Faso or powdered milk. WHO is, for example, also active in efforts to restrict tobacco advertising worldwide.

Message from international bureaucrats to the rest of humanity:

“You are all too stupid to think for yourselves”.