If you only look at one thread today, Hunker asks please make it this one

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I'd like you to sign a petition, please.

The reasons are here.

The petition is here.

Thank you.

I agree with Ruty Nemo; noone is judging a mother who formula feeds.
What bothers me is that the mothers in the clips were formula feeding in the belief that they were doing something extra good for their babies. Personally I think there are lots of perfectly good reasons for deciding to formula feed, but being (mis)led to believe that it will turn your child into a genius, while killing yourself with work to pay for the formula and hurting your child by using dirty water to make the stuff is not one of them. The companies were aggressively pushing formula in contravention of local laws. The whole thing was unlawful, unethical and cynical.

BTW I did sign it was just passing comment.

I thought you would have done, Nemo - and again, I am sorry if it makes you feel bad

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• I just didn't want you (and others) to feel bad as a result of this thread. It's the companies who need a good slap; mothers in general just try their best.

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when o clicked on the link i expected to see news of how nasty the formula companies were being. wha ti d idnt expect was the mothers.
every single one of them looked proud and happy withe her little one. they all firmly believed they were doing the right thing for theire babies. reminded me completely of the mn breast bottle fights and the staunchness of the bottlefeeding camp. those women could be anyone from mn.
and that is why it is all themore sad what the companies are doing.

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I found it hard to watch the film, but I'm glad I did. Signed.

Signed.

I find it quite strange that firms like Cow & Gate have helplines for breastfeeding. They make and sell formula. Am I being too cynical in being deeply suspicious?

i suspect you are not.

AD, no, you're not being too cynical - why would they target women who are already ffeeding? Bfing mums are the ones they want to change to their product. There's a link on the Baby Milk Action site to some of the underhand and against the Code stuff the companies do in this country as well. I'll see if I can dig it out - was in last month's newsletter.

Apple.

Exactly

EXACTLY

SWC, yes, bf culture is so diminished here it's untrue.

Largely down to advertising. It's lessened now, but still pretty pervasive.

But in the Philippines, it's deadly to let them keep on like this.

so many people have that experience smallwhitecat it is shocking.

so many people have that experience smallwhitecat it is shocking.

I did a bit of work roughly connected to some of this stuff and it was very interesting the subtle methods used.

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