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PAGE 214, WFDNESDAY, MIAY 20, 1981, WIIITBY FREE PRESS Heavy propaganda lkilling off babies THE VOICE 0F THE TURTL:E by George Tauchman.d "*Foreign aid is a plan through which the poor people of the rich countries give money to the rich people of the poor countries. " Ann Onnimus. "I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless mer- chant." Albert Camus. We need a Ralph Nader in Whîtby; perhaps he could raise a public outcry about the practices of the largest baby formula makers!1 I can't believe it's for real. There's a plan to shrivel up hundreds of thousands of babies seriously sickened with gastroenteritis and malnutrition, and the practice may con- inue for years to come. This week I have been getting this story on the radio, in the newspapers and magazines! l'm horrified at mysel! for not losing more sleep over it, but I arn much more distressed at the callous unconcern of some people when they are told about this business deal. This deal tortures 10 million Third World babies a year, o! which one million die from disease and malnutrition. Volunteer church and health groups around the world continue to document these abuses of the m-ultinational manufacturers. The World Health Organization is trying to legislate an international code to restrict these business practices. UNICEF International has COME GROW WITH US. GOLD JACKET Reahyd. LZ68-22J SOON Whiltby Looks Good with GoId 824 Brock St,, N., Whitby (Right across from the Curling rink.) 'ix ____ j- :': HOUSEHOLO GENERAL ELECTRIC STOVE, white, excellent condition, $150. Cali 579-8915. Feb.25,81(ffl MOFFATT STOVE à FRIDGE (Il door>, harvest gold, $400 for pair. CalI 668- 0828. May 13,81(M) APARTMENT SIZED SPIN WÎASHER a SEPARATE ORYER, excellent con- dition, $125 each. Cali 666-1368. Mar,25,81(B) j GENERAL ELECTRIC WASHER with suds saver. 1 GENERAL ELEC- TRUC OR VER, matching pair, $300. n good condition. Cxii668-2800 May 6,81 (Pl KE NMMORE -2 SPEEO -WASHING MACHINE, new cluich. neads timer, $65. KELVINATOR ELECTRIC CLOTHES ORIER, new heai elemeni, drum s floisy. good condition. $75. Cali 668-6294 May 6,81 (V) SIMPLICITY RINGER WASHER, good condition. $90 Cxli 668-3885 evenings May 6,81 (M) VIKING AUTOMATIC WASRER à ORVER, working condition, $50 each or $75 tor thie pair Cali 655-8062 May 6.8 1(Dl WESTINOHOUSE AUTOMATIC WASHER. in good condition, $225 Cati 623-1534 Feb 25.81(S) WRINGER WASHERI. good condition. great tor cottage, $20 Cati 655-3575 Apr 22,81(F) SUPPLIES CANOE,12 tout $t0C., '723-0855 ma y 2081(M) ALUMINUM 12' BOAT $400. Cati 723-0855. May 20,81(M) 15' SKI BOAT and Evinrude motor, radio, ski tripod, dlean and sharp. $2,195. Phone 668-3653. May 6,81(C) 1948 MERCURY OUTROARO MOTOR, 711, $100. 327 MOTOR $200. Cati 723-0855. May 20,81(M) W~OTRCYCLESu CIiiSLE/ETL 1975 550 FOUR HONDA, excellent condition, inclues louis & heimets, $950 or nearesl offer, Phone sltar 6 p m 655-4431, Apr.8,81(G) 1976 HONDA 750 SUPER SPORT, immaculale condition, 10.000 hwy. miles, original owner. angine is per- fect and reguiarly serviced, orange melallîc and black, crash bar and back resticarrier and cruise control. new chaîn and Mchelin taxi ire, '80 plates Serîous caliers. $1.650 Cali 723-2487 Apr 1.81(W) 1978 VAMAHA, 125, OTE. Io* mieage. A-1 condition Asking $1.000rCxii 668 3523 aller 6p m Apr 1,81(U) 1980 GRANDE MOPED. iîaîdty used. $700 Phone 655-3470 betore noon or aller 6 p m May 6.81(G) MINI-BIKE. 98 cc. aolomalîc. nu gears,$175 Phone 668-4934 Mar 25,81(L) SUZUKI 380 MOTORCYCLE, 10,000 original mitas, $750. Cati 668-6972. Apr. 15,81(M) SUZUKI 250 TRAIL BIKE $400. KCAWASAKI 90 TRAIL BIKE $200. Cati 723-0855. May 20,81(M) SUPPLIESý Large siim-tine OLIVETTI OFFICE ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR with tape. n excellent condition. CosI $299, se)l $45. Cati 723-6731. Apr.8,81(B) TWO INSULATED OFFICE ROOM DIVIDERS on stands. 5' s 6% askîng $20 escli Cati 668-6144. Apr.15,81(R() SHEEPDOG - mate, $50 (o good home, trained, good wth chldren. Cxli 668-7371ý Apr>15,81) ST. BERNARD, $10 t0 good home, Good with chîldren. Phone 725-8370. Mxi 4,81(H) 10 GAL. AQUARIUM. pump. iller& lîght, $25. Cati 965-3542, Apr,1.81(H) 75 GAL. FISH TANK wîth stand. silent osiant pump, healer, undergrave) iller. $300 Cai 668-0748, Apr 15,81(M) ONE 5 GAL. FISH TANK. $5 Cati 579-2073 30 GAL. ALL GLASS FISH TANK with black wrought iron stand, power filter, Hush 111 pump, undergravel f ilter, heater, etc. $150. Cal) 579-2073. Apr.1,81(T) THREE SHOW JARS, $1.50 each. Cal 579,2073. A pr. 1,81(T) TWO BICYCLES: mens $65, boys' $25. Cal) 683-6638. A pr. 8,81 (S) BOY'S HIGH RISE BIKE, suitabie for boy 6-8 years old. Asking $25. Cxli 668-6144. Apr 15,81(R) TOODLER TRICYCLE. asking $12. Cati1668-6144. Apr.15,81(R) BEGINNER'S GOLF BAG & CART. $25 n good condition, Cxii 576-2366ý Apr.22.81(L) 1972 SNOW PRINCE. excellent con- dition, $250 or best otier Ca)) 668-8090 Mar il 81(C) a g . HmHJ thing goîng. a --ale IERS] 1980 MASTERCOACH TRAILER, 33 fI. wtth 2 thp outs, 2-way ridge & stove wtth see-through oven, double sink, 21 f1. awning, oak doors, TV antenne, steeps 6, 1 bedroom, 3-piece washroom, asking $14,000. Cati 683-4457, Ajax. TRAILER, tilt swivet, $150. CatI 723-0855. May 20,81 (M) 4 x 8 BOX TRAILER, 14' wtieels. Aslîing $225. Cai 668-6144. A pr. 15,81 (R) FLATBED TRAItER with dual asies, 20' long, suits any purpose from hautîng sod to catie, $3.000. Cati 668-9656. Mar.4,81(0) FOR SALE: 1965 CHEV RAMP TRUCK, with 1001 boxes & storage cabinets, $500. Phone 655-3470 before noon or aller 6 p.m. May 6,81(G) 1965 FORD 'h TON, mechanîcatiy A- i, needs mînor body work. $500 lîrm Cxli 655-3545 allter S p.m Apr.29,81(Hi 1979 FORD HALF TON, super cab. 351 molor. 150 Explorer, 10w mleage, power steerîng, puwer brakes, stereo, sliding windows. tilt sîeerîng, crusse control. factory air. bold dlown seals. tinled windows. heavy duly suspen- sion, traiter package. Ziebarled, Par- masteine. Ford cap «ith ail slîdîng windows, equîpped for camping and mucri more Pain $13.500. askîng $8.400 cerltîed Must set) Cxli 728-700 Apr 1581(S) 8 FOOT SLIDE*IN TRUCK CAMPER, good condition, $500. Cai 655-3545 ater 5 p.m. Apr.29,81(H) ýSomebody Gares! Gares if you are new in town and feel kind of Iost; if you've just added a new son or daughter to your family; If HE has finally asked you ta become his wife; If you or someone n your family is celebrating a very special oc- casion ... Who? MEW 668-9168 Phone OR 579-7521 a Iq6 FREE PREýSS EMPORIUM _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ià 1 1 a . . Apr,1,81ÇT) spoken against these manufacturers and so has the revered Mother Theresa of Calcutta. The plan is simple. The world's largest manufacturers of baby formulas are doing over a $450 million a year business (which is actuaily just peanuts to them) in a manner that is outraging the more conscientîous, sensitive and thoughtful people of the world. (I pray that most of my readers may be among the sensitive ones.) This is the way this business works: In the impoverished slums of Latin America, where people live under subhumafl conditions in ugiy hovels and grinding poverty, where they have no education and no plumbing, they are being "Ibrain- washed" into buying baby formulas that (even though not harmful per se) will put the babies in grave, mortal danger. When used under the deplorable conditions of the barrios, the formula becomes a killer. The worst of it is that these impoverished, uneducated mothers would do inf initely better for their babies by breast- feeding them, but they let their breasts dry up from disuse. They become victims of the heavy propaganda which selîs them on the wild idea that their mother's miik is no good. So they strain their meagre family budget (about 33 per cent of it on average) to buy these baby formulas. Their doctors even conspire (bribed by the manufacturers) to give these misguided nursing mothers pilîs that wili speed up the drying of their breasts. These victims cannot even afford to instaîl running water in their hovels so they must buy river water that is polluted with raw sewage and industrial waste. The weil-meaning but illiterate mothers are forced to thin down these formulas to the point where the baby is weakened by malnutrition as well as imbibing disease-packed water. The mothers cannot af- ford enough o! the formula. Hundreds of sales personnel, some of them illegitimately uniformed as nurses, keep the pressure o! their propaganda going, setting up these poor mothers for tragedy. On May 11, the Toronto Star published the names of the manufacturers in question in Michele Landsberg's column. Thank God for the freedom of the press, a democracy's most precious possession. Thank God for ail the media that are not worried about iosing the advertising dollar of these formula merchants! The spring edition of the Canadian Humanist Magazine tells of ail the world organizations that have sprung up to combat this bottle-feed scandai. Monique Begin, the Canadian I-ealth Minister, addressed the World Health assernbly in Geneva this month piedging Canada's support of the proposed WHO marketing code. Miss Landsberg cites a letter by Dr. Stig Sjolin, the ieading Swedish expert on child nutrition, published in a prestigious British medical journal, "The Lancet", in which he resigns his post after 23 years with a bottle-formula manufacturer because of the firm's unethical marketing practices. There is now a Canadian boycott organization backed by Canada's major church organizations, headed by Nancy Hawley and a Toronto lawyer, Joseph Boyard. Hawley and Boyard had been sponsored by the Canadian Ursuline Nuns to go on a fact-finding trip to Peru. Their reports are sickening to read. This very minute there's an army of mothers watering the home-made graves of their babies with mothers' tears. How many years will the caring people of the world need to put a stop to this inhuman form of business enterprise? %%0