www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/us-opposition-to-breastfeeding-motion-stuns-world-health-officials-1.3558786
A resolution to encourage breastfeeding 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 US delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breastfeeding”
and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.
When that failed, they turned to threats,
according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions.
Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.
The Americans were blunt:
If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid.
The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.
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Health advocates scrambled to find another sponsor for the resolution,
but at least a dozen countries, most of them poor nations in Africa and Latin America, backed off, citing fears of retaliation,
according to officials from Uruguay, Mexico and the United States.
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Patti Rundall, policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action:
“What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the US holding the world hostage
and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on the best way to protect infant and young child health,”
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It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure
– and the Americans did not threaten them.
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The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration siding with corporate interests on numerous public health and environmental issues.
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