In the late 1940s, Gerber Products Company and Beech-Nut produced special cookbooks to promote the sale of commercial baby foods for use by elderly, sick, or disabled people.
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Similar rites of passage are practiced across Asia, including the Bengal region, Vietnam, and Thailand.
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They are used as a traditional food source for nursing mothers, the seed flour is fermented to make baby food, the leaves and shoots, especially of T. occidentalis, are eaten as vegetables.
Conversely, in 2007 Bettencourt was jointly "awarded" a Black Planet Award, an award given for destroying the planet, along with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe for proliferating contaminated baby food, monopolising water resources, and tolerating child labor.
Sally Gerber (born 1927 in Fremont, Michigan) is the daughter of Daniel Frank Gerber who established the baby food enterprise Gerber Products Company.