Sep. 23rd, 2008

Baby milk

Sep. 23rd, 2008 07:07 pm
hmpf: Me painted blue (fanatic)
I'm leafing through my yellowed, brittle Guardian copies again. I've just found yet another article about the health problems caused by baby food companies aggressively encouraging poorly educated mothers in third world countries to give up breastfeeding in favour of feeding their babies formula (by making it appear as if formula is a safer, better, more 'modern' and 'scientific' way to feed your baby).

I remember reading essentially the same article in current newspapers this year or last year, or maybe this year *and* last year, so apparently these companies are still at it.

Someone remind me again why we allow something like that to go on for more than thirty years?

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@ [livejournal.com profile] mikes_grrl: I found a debate between gay and straight readers about the 'appropriation' of the word 'gay' in the letter columns; apparently there was an article about gay rights in the February 28 edition (I currently have the March volume here, so I can't look it up immediately). Would you like me to check that out for you?

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