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cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:

>In article <1992Sep25.153147.13074@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> alan@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) writes:
>>Let's stop right here.  Unless Nestle is forcing hospitals to bottle feed
>>infants the problem isn't with Nestle, it's with the hospital.  Sure Nestle
>>may be trying to make a buck, but given that people in the Third World
>>can't afford to buy the milk after they have the child (which you observed),
>>seems like Nestle is basically giving away free milk without much hope of
>>getting anything out of it.  Sounds like a good deed to me.

>From the original article:

>>2. When newborn babies are given bottles, they are less able to suckle
>>well. This makes breastfeeding failure likely. The baby is then
>>dependent on artificial milk.
>>
>>3. When the mother and baby leave hospital the milk is no longer free.
>>At home the mother is forced to buy more milk which can cost 50% of the
>>family income.

>This is akin to saying that a heroin dealer is doing a good deed by

It seems to me that the heroin dealer here is the hosptial, not nest.
The hospital is a medical facility, why do they continue this practice.
It should be up to them to control this and to take the right steps to
make sure things work out right.

>providing the first hit free; after all, who can afford heroin?  Nestle
>is not doing anything just to do third worlders a kindness; they are
>making big bucks off of sales of their formula.  They are, in fact,
>creating addicts to their product, and the product is often dangerous
>to the users.  The World Health Organization is not a bunch of weirdos;
>their call for an end to third-world infant formula sales is based in
>public health motiviations, not geopolitics.

Why don't the third worlds stop using it then.  Is Nestle paying the
hospital to do something, if not, then as I said, the hospital is the
expert, they should teach the newborns and mothers how to brest feed.

Todd

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