Seems like an odd decision and if based on marketing of infant formula, shame on us.
“The showdown over the issue was recounted by more than a dozen participants from several countries, many of whom requested anonymity because they feared retaliation from the United States.”
uh, yeah ... anonymity ... in other words, more rumors from the leftist fake stream media being published as pretend “news” ...
Experience tells me that there is more to this story.
No evidence of that, but NYT says so anyway.
experience screams fake
“should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.”
I’m a big fan of breastfeeding. I did it for three years (two babies) but I don’t think that other ways of feeding babies need to be regulated by governments.
There is room for both, but coming from the NY Slime, I say fake or a hit job.
“The resolution as originally drafted placed unnecessary hurdles for mothers seeking to provide nutrition to their children,” an H.H.S. spokesman said in an email. These women should have the choice and access to alternatives for the hea
From what I read it seems there was opposition to non-breast feeding options, and that may be what this is about...but...GET THE US out of the UN...sounds a lot like the one worlders are trying to control something to me
The U.N. is worthless.
My first daughter was born in Japan in a no-formula hospital. My daughter had breastfeeding jaundice for days until I smuggled formula in. They need to at least address that factor. It cost us $2000 in extra treatment.
Backdoor sin taxes is what was really prevented with the efforts as what should be an easy resolution became yet another vehicle for liberals seeking to push other agendas (and of course, finance them on the backs of the public and companies.)
How hard can this be to craft? ‘We advise women who are able to that they breastfeed their children.’ There, done. But that’s not how these multilateral resolutions are created; it drifts sometimes far beyond the scope into marketing restrictions that favor some companies over others, etc.
That there has to be elaborate negotiations over something that should be as quick as ‘where’s last year’s resolution, okay, make copies, let’s get it signed.’
It’s nice having a government that doesn’t just rubber stamp the latest liberal screeds. And contrary to the reporting, the Russian resolution excluded ALL of the material the US objected to. That so many countries were so scared of liberals that they couldn’t do the same thing is really the scary part.
Lots of families raise perfectly healthy babies with formula.
Doing so is a perfectly valid decision by those families.
Governmental bodies, national or international, need to stay out of it.
Why listen to those boobs at the NYT?
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.
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.
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 !
We women decide what we do with our boobs. Got that lefties?
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.