Baby Milk Action's take on the latest row re Jordan

[hunkermunker]

Interesting, I thought

I tend to agree with you meand......I think the formula companies have managed to piss all over us, to be honest

Yep, MAMFM, I rather think I agree.

It doesn't do much for the way I feel about formula companies.

Sorry if that's boring to people.

Tell you what, when they alter their practices, I'll stop posting about it.

They are lost in this. I was talking to someone today and they couldn't even name the comapany involved, although they had read lots of opinion pieces on it.

yes, I agree too mamfm. it was always going to be this way, though - the media are not great at dealing with complex issues tbh and soon slip into stereotyping.
and the Jordan thinkg well I think in mny cases it was an excuse for "serious" broadcasters to say the words "Jordan" and "breasts" in the same sentence

"If we are talking about womens rights we need to arm them with facts not poncey journalism which is full of crap"
god how right you are about that.

It is interesting, hunker.
The link to a reasonably well balanced report in the metro was also interesting, it's not a paper I would normally associate with high standards in journalism.
Bin the Times, read the Metro?

Did anyone read the comments on the Metro story? One from Mike Brady, the other:

We were talking about this same topic across the pond, and people started getting nasty when New York's public hospitals pulled formula samples from new mommy gift bags. I can't imagine what the fallout would be if the breast-feeding lobby demanded the ban of all formula ads.

• Lactose Intolerance, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Is formula still provided free to mums in hospital in America?!

Yes - this is widespread in the USA. The formula is free to the hospital, and in fact, the formula manufacturers pay the hospital whose nurses distribute the gift bags. Bit like Bounty here.

Free formula is easy to get - eg you put your name down for it at 'the doctor's office' ie the ob/gyn surgery and you get a case delivered at the time your baby is due.

Advertising of formula is all over the place.

I am glad there are people who stop that happening in this country.

Because it would, if the "oh, let 'em do what they want" brigade had their way.

babyrazzi story on it scroll down the page

AAW, not bad, till the author launches an attack on bfing mothers(!) then veers off into a childbirth anecdote...!