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There's plenty wrong with trying to convince women in nations with limited or intermittent access to clean water, or with limited economic resources, that formula is preferable to breast feeding.
Luckily for your granddaughters, it was a non-issue. Not so for everyone else on this planet.
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Originally Posted by gentlearts
The US motives could be the result of lobbying by big business, and if so, it is not right, but how does a resolution matter, really? I need to read the article more carefully, but if it’s in the NYT, they are sure to slant it according to their agenda.
You can make all the resolutions you want, but it wouldn’t affect how I fed my baby.
No one cares how you feed your baby.
What the UN cares about - and what we should all care about - is the big business lobby and the U.S. administration that's beholden to it trying to fleece women all over the world into believing that formula is safer and healthier for their babies, when the actual facts are much different.
Unless you think that the benefits to breastfeeding are just a New York Times slant ...
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The article did seem incomplete so I read another article and discovered that infant formula manufacturers were attending the event. The US eventually backed down on their threat after Russia decided to sponsor the measure
The WHO adopted this stance because breastfeeding is so much safer in countries where there is limited access to clean water and/or water for washing bottles and where pre-made formula is just too expensive for the average consumer.
For the US, where we CAN choose and still keep babies safe and well fed, to try to make it seem like formula is totally safe in, say, the Sudan, is reckless.
So poor people are buying contaminated formula instead of feeding babies the good stuff for free.
No. But, the US refusing to back initiatives to encourage poor people in third-world countries to breastfeed because it is safer for babies is wrong.
Why would they need encouragement? If they cannot afford formula they ARE breast feeding. If they are told formula is BAD they might not want to use it when it is necessary such as if they don't produce enough breast milk because of their own malnutrition.
Well we knew that already, because of the illegal immigration policy.
But wait, there's more. The Trump administration is against a policy of recommending that women breastfeed their babies. That's so the infant formula companies won't lose any money.
So, case closed, obviously Trump himself despises babies and will do everything possible to damage their health.
Well we knew that already, because of the illegal immigration policy.
But wait, there's more. The Trump administration is against a policy of recommending that women breastfeed their babies. That's so the infant formula companies won't lose any money.
So, case closed, obviously Trump himself despises babies and will do everything possible to damage their health.
If Trump hated babies they would be in jail with the parents.
Why would they need encouragement? If they cannot afford formula they ARE breast feeding. If they are told formula is BAD they might not want to use it when it is necessary such as if they don't produce enough breast milk because of their own malnutrition.
I only read one article about it but I don't believe the focus of the resolution was to encourage woman to breastfeed...it was about limiting the promotion (i.e., marketing) of formula instead of breast milk.
I only read one article about it but I don't believe the focus of the resolution was to encourage woman to breastfeed...it was about limiting the promotion (i.e., marketing) of formula instead of breast milk.
Correct. Nestle, for example, for decades has been marketing its formula to women all over the world, trying to convince them that its formula is safer and healthier than breast milk.
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Trump hates babies
