U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World

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U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials

And I thought it was obvious that Trump is a 'breast man'.

Sometimes it's difficult to discern Trump Administration policies from parody and satire.

Hey Poem, Mr. 'natural guy', want to take the side of the infant formula companies on this one? I mean it IS GOP political dogma, corporate interests over science.


Source: NYT

A resolution to encourage breast-feeding 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.

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American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” 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.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/wor...trump.html

The US threatened Ecuador with trade sanctions and withdrawal of military aid, to stop this resolution which infant formula manufacturers opposed.

The NYT learned of this just recently from more than a dozen participants, who asked to be anonymous sources because of fear of US retaliation.

According to the story, after Ecuador caved, more than a dozen other countries were asked to sponsor this but refused, out of fear of US actions.

Finally RUSSIA sponsored it...and for some odd reason US officials DIDN'T threaten them.

Imagine that?

The State Department is refusing to answer questions about this.

HHS admits the US opposed the resolution but said the agency was not involved in the threats made to try to stop it.

Calls to the Department of Bullying and Threatening, the DBT, went unanswered.



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