U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials

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By Andrew Jacobs at the NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

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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.

American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/trump-administration-comes-breastfeeding-worldwide-placate-baby-formula-makers-russia-objects/

[Gothmog]

1. The United States, "embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers,"

Link to tweet

[applegrove]

2. Does Trump's brain trust, the financial elite, want the people to have lower IQs?

[FSogol]

5. Actually, yes they do. The dumber people are, the easier it is to sell them stuff. n/t

[applegrove]

7. Plus they don't fight as effectively for economic and social justice. Plus they vote for

authoritarians and against their own economic self interest.

[AlexSFCA]

3. this is insane and the formula is quite expensive

it’s a perfect demonstration how this admin only cares about the unborn.

[lunasun]

4. Oh opposition to something healthy the U$ can't market & profit from ? No surprise really nowadays

[applegrove]

6. Like solar panels. Can't make money off of something free like the sun so down with solar panels.

[3catwoman3]

8. This is appalling and ridiculous.

Get all the babies born, and then don't support the most beneficial method of feeding? Give me a fucking break.

This is bullshit.