One of the reasons for the high mortality rates for babies in certain periods of history was because breast-feeding was out of fashion (this was true of the period around Mozart).
Multi-national corporations (Nestles for example) undermined this natural process for decades by distributing formula throughout the third world. Of course, there the water is deadly so babies died all over the place from the deadly water. Mainly breast feeding is undermined by painting as barbaric and not chic or fashionable.
It becomes our business because of the increased costs to the public health system from sick children whose sicknesses may have been prevented by being breast fed.
While I am in favor of infants being breastfed, it is not something that should be legislated. What will be next? You will be fined or have your baby taken away if you only breasfeed for 3 months instead of whatever the government thinks is the right length of time? Child & Family services will be paying you visits every week if you cannot produce X ounces of milk per day, X being whatever the government says is the standard? Employers will be forced into giving paid time off to all nursing mothers for how long?
It is not our business. It is no more our business than oversize sodas, availability of fried and sugary foods, access to tobacco and alcohol. All of those choices create “increased costs to the public health system”, your words, not mine. Where do you draw the line?
Not good enough. The "costs to the public health system" can be an excuse for you to march everybody else around to whatever tune you are playing. That's one reason why Obamaocare is so scary.
If we had an actual free-market system, in which Mommy Dearest bore the costs of unnecessarily feeding her kid formula, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
as I read down thru the posts....I see u starting to win...Why am I not surprised?...