>If WIC were not providing ABM for these babies, they
>would probably be drinking Kool-Aid or some such. ... I am
>convinced that if the ABM supplying program was abandoned, our infant
>mortality rates would sky-rocket. I hear WIC nutitionists begging
>caregivers not to water down the formula to "stretch" it to the end of
>the month.  There are worse things for babies than ABM."

This is absolutely mind-boggling.  Are you saying that new mothers, educated
about their ability to produce the very best milk for their babies, and
simply *not* given any breastmilk-substitute handouts, would knowingly feel
the pain of full, engorged breasts and simultaneously watch their babies
starve rather than breastfeed them?

I don't think so!  I think this is a multi-billion dollar myth perpetuated
by the dairy industry to keep themselves in business.  And one of the most
successful scams of the 20th century.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC, Zimbabwe (feeling a bit touchy about a new push to
give formula away in this part of the world too - different reasons, same
agenda!)

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