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Title: WTO protects corporate profits over health of Guatemalan babies
Description: Transnational food giants like Nestlé or Gerber have long used unethical marketing practices to promote sales of baby formula in Third World countries. International organizations like UNICEF have pushed companies to remove images of chubby, healthy babies from their advertising. Until recently, Guatemala had a law prohibiting such advertising. But Gerber, backed by the U.S. government, threatened to take Guatemala to the WTO. Guatemala backed down. They got rid of their law, and Gerber continues its unethical advertising!
Originally published in: Globalization: who's winning and who's losing, 2004. Canadian Labour Congress.
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