Venezuela considers taking bottles from babies' mouths

[Zorro]

Venezuela's Congress will discuss legislation next week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants to try to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula, said a lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party.

Legislator Odalis Monzon said the proposal would "prohibit all types of baby bottles" as a way to improve children's health.

"We want to increase the love (between mother and child) because this has been lost as a result of these transnational companies selling formula," Monzon said on state television on Thursday.

She said the Law for the Promotion and Support for Breast-Feeding, passed in 2007, did not establish any sanctions for using formula.

However, she did not say what the sanctions might be if the proposed change to prohibit bottle feeding is passed by Congress, where the Socialist Party has a majority.

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-considers-taking-bottles-babies-mouths-195601333.html

[SheilaT]

1. Great idea

(she said sarcastically) because of course all mothers are totally able to breast feed their babies.

Geez. I'm a pretty die-hard supporter of breast feeding, and even I think that's a totally stupid idea. There are other ways to support breast feeding. Meanwhile, formula is a pretty good idea for when it's needed.

[naaman fletcher]

3. Yup

I have a 3 month old. My wife was a big breast feeding proponent (as am I). However, it's just did work out for her and now my daughter is bottle fed.

This is insanity

[joshcryer]

2. This is insanity.

Most mothers try to breast feed. This is blaming the mothers for not breast feeding and making them out to be horrible mothers.

[COLGATE4]

4. This is about the level you'd expect from

Maduro and the Chavistas.