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

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

SNIPPET:
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. {emphasis added}
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Once again, the people who ran against "the swamp" are hip-deep in mud.

Does this make America great? No.
Does it make us more respected by the rest of the world? No.
But this is how we are being represented.
It is simply wrong.
 
Typical Corporate-State America. Don't do what's better and natural...do this other thing that people paid me to say you should do.
 
From the article:

“We were shocked because we didn’t understand how such a small matter like breast-feeding could provoke such a dramatic response,” said the Ecuadorean official, who asked not to be identified because she was afraid of losing her job.
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Me too. I don't know quite what's up here but I am not liking it.
 
MTAtech said:
Exact Title: U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials

SNIPPET:

Once again, the people who ran against "the swamp" are hip-deep in mud.

Does this make America great? No.
Does it make us more respected by the rest of the world? No.
But this is how we are being represented.
It is simply wrong.
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CNN said:
HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a statement responding to the account of the resolution that the US "has a long history of supporting mothers and breastfeeding around the world and is the largest bilateral donor of such foreign assistance programs."
"The issues being debated were not about whether one supports breastfeeding," she said. "The United States was fighting to protect women's abilities to make the best choices for the nutrition of their babies. Many women are not able to breastfeed for a variety of reasons, these women should not be stigmatized; they should be equally supported with information and access to alternatives for the health of themselves and their babies."
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NYT From your article actually said:
The Department of Health and Human Services, the lead agency in the effort to modify the resolution, explained the decision to contest the resolution’s wording but said H.H.S. was not involved in threatening Ecuador.

“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. “We recognize not all women are able to breast-feed for a variety of reasons. These women should have the choice and access to alternatives for the health of their babies, and not be stigmatized for the ways in which they are able to do so.” The spokesman asked to remain anonymous in order to speak more freely.
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It seems your OP left out critical details... You last comment is accurate: "It is simply wrong".
 
americanwoman said:
Me too. I don't know quite what's up here but I am not liking it.
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For this administration, breasts aren't supposed to be used for their intended purpose, I guess.

Ironic, with so many boobs in this administration.
 
chuckiechan said:
It seems your OP left out critical details... You last comment is accurate: "It is simply wrong".
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No it's pretty obvious that the statement you quoted is what they would obviously say. It reads just like a PR person from Nestle wrote it. But hey it's not surprising that you would support "the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes."
 
americanwoman said:
From the article:



Me too. I don't know quite what's up here but I am not liking it.
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Some people make money selling alternatives to breastfeeding.

They don't want their profits impacted.

So they pushed the buttons that made this happen.
 
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