Profits over People: Infant Formula Industry vs Breast Milk
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— Padma
How many babies need to die before they are allowed their mothers’ milk?
Bob Dylan the well known singer and song writer wrote ‘Blowing in the Wind’ in 1962 a hard hitting song about war and peace and human rights during the civil rights movement in the United States. One line in that song goes like this: Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist, Before they’re allowed to be free? Another line in the same song: Yes, ‘n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The recent scandal surrounding the U.S. administration’s attempts to derail a resolution to promote breast feeding of infants evidently in favour of infant formula manufacturers brings to mind Bob Dylan’s powerful song.
The United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly he...