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U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
Mobile NYT ^ | July 8, 2018 | Andrew Jacobs

Posted on 07/08/2018 2:56:06 PM PDT by gattaca

A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.

Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.

Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations...

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To: gattaca

I used to call these people breast nazis long ago. They want the government to force people to breastfeed their babies and make formula by prescription only.
Breastfeeding is best for babies. I breastfed all eight of mine. I don’t want the government, or some communist in the un telling me how to feed my children.


21 posted on 07/08/2018 3:21:12 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: gattaca

Breastfeeding assumes that the mother has proper nutrition, as well as an absence of contaminants that could harm her infant.

An advantage of formula is that it can contain balanced nutrition. Its perhaps biggest disadvantage is that it lacks probiotics found in mother’s milk that are essential to their digestive flora. It also lacks antigens, molecules capable of inducing an immune response (to produce antibodies), for local diseases.


22 posted on 07/08/2018 3:21:13 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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To: gattaca

I understand some women can’t do it but to not back it over the formula companies will just make infants sicker and less tied to their mothers

Make all the jokes you want but but breastfeeding is important and now your formula companies have the upper hands !


23 posted on 07/08/2018 3:23:22 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (;I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.” Sherlock Holmes)
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To: gattaca

We women decide what we do with our boobs. Got that lefties?


24 posted on 07/08/2018 3:25:16 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: sanjuanbob

I let out a little titter at your comment


25 posted on 07/08/2018 3:25:32 PM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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To: gattaca

Oh, bite me. These people just want top down control. I thought the governments were supposed to stay out of our private reproduction decisions!

Here is the truth about what is best for babies. At home with only their immediate family. The best, cleanest fresh raw mother’s milk there is. And no assaults on their immune system in infancy, from adulterated ingredients (in the mother’s diet or on her skin and in her air included). No vaccines the first year either.

But no one cares if the mother isn’t home and the baby is in day care all day. No one cares about the mother’s poor diet, her drugs, her lotions, or the vaccines the child gets. And donated breast milk is often flash pasteurized, killing it and rendering it useless as nourishment for the baby, relegated to a source of fluid and macros only. No bacteria to keep the baby healthy, no enzymes.

While it is true that people shouldn’t choose powdered formula for their babies, they shouldn’t do a lot of things they do. Make the formula manufacturers be honest on their packaging and stay out of it, world governments.


26 posted on 07/08/2018 3:25:48 PM PDT by Yaelle (school)
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To: gattaca

Formula-feeding is unhealthy and unnatural, but homosexuality is perfectly normal.


27 posted on 07/08/2018 3:26:52 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Trillian

I love this place sometimes. All these breastfeeding moms like us, knowing it is best for baby, still don’t want the Law forcing women to do it. Good on FReeper moms!!


28 posted on 07/08/2018 3:27:47 PM PDT by Yaelle (school)
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To: llevrok; sanjuanbob

Nip it back a little, guys, or this thread’s humor is really going to suck.


29 posted on 07/08/2018 3:29:27 PM PDT by Yaelle (school)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“...common sense tells us that mother’s milk is the best nutrition for her infant...”

And it is very sad that less than half of US mothers breast feed their babies.


30 posted on 07/08/2018 3:29:29 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24
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To: gattaca
American negotiators did get language removed that called on the W.H.O. to provide technical support to member states seeking to halt “inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children.”

The United States also insisted that the words “evidence-based” accompany references to long-established initiatives that promote breast-feeding

The horror!

31 posted on 07/08/2018 3:31:33 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Monterrosa-24
“...common sense tells us that mother’s milk is the best nutrition for her infant...” And it is very sad that less than half of US mothers breast feed their babies.

What percentage of American mothers work outside the home?

What percentage of American mothers lack an adequate supply?

Teach mothers what is the best way, but keep government & "NGO" regulations & guilt trips out of it. In some cases, supplemental feeding is essential.

32 posted on 07/08/2018 3:40:24 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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To: traderrob6

“Experience tells me that there is more to this story”

Well, Govt forbid anything should be done to remind today’s pussyhat womyn that thier bodies are inherently designed to bear children and provide sustenance for them should the unborn survive the “oh crap I have a fetal mass, where is the nearest Planned Parenthood” crisis. It reminds them of the horrid conditions they escaped from so they could become the chronically miserable, hysterical, screaming offensive mass of rage they are today.


33 posted on 07/08/2018 3:40:27 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: gattaca

All well and good if the mother is healthy and not a drinker or drug abuser. Otherwise, formula is safer.


34 posted on 07/08/2018 3:57:02 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: gattaca

Actually, the veracity of the healthfulness of “mother’s milk” can depend on the health of the mother, and where poverty is very high, and nutrition qaulity is very low, it is not a given that “mother’s milk” is preferable in all cases.


35 posted on 07/08/2018 4:16:04 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: NobleFree

Sounds like they were trying to find a way to block US based formula from their markets. But given the high rate of maternal mortality in third world countries, it would be unwise to make the stuff harder for the poor to get. I think we all agree breastfeeding is better, but there are often reasons it cannot be done.


36 posted on 07/08/2018 4:26:21 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: BwanaNdege

“Guilt trips” ??? Women that work outside the home can and do breast feed. Women that do not produce enough milk can still breast feed some.

Many women just choose not to breast feed because the idea of breasts being something other than cosmetic appendages is an almost alien concept.

American rates are back up. One study showed a 51 percent rate even for six month old babies. Here in the South we have a lower rate.


37 posted on 07/08/2018 4:28:33 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24
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To: gattaca

3rd world starving mommas and babies equals high infant mortality rates. Feed mommas food, feed babies food. Give daddi d’s plows , nets and tools to make it better. Oh, First get rid of the govt thieves and profiteers. Yeah right.


38 posted on 07/08/2018 4:30:31 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: skr

Don’t forget the vegans. They often deprive the infant of much needed fats for brain development.


39 posted on 07/08/2018 4:53:01 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: gattaca
I think breast feeding is best, but why can't we keep government out of this?

What about all the liberal crapola about keeping government out of decisions affecting a woman's body?

40 posted on 07/08/2018 4:54:01 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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