I'm wondering, do you have to provide a balanced book for tobacco?  How 
about cocaine?  Is there a book about the wonderful reasons the average 
person should use heroin?  How about a balanced book about car seats.  A 
book on the theory that car seats are bad for babies and that mothers 
who place babies in baskets on the floor of the car or hold them in arms 
should not feel guilty because they were not able to learn or did not 
want to learn to use a car seat?  Maybe there is a balanced book for 100 
reasons not to wear a helmet.  Personally, I don't care if adults don't 
wear helmets while they are going 90 mph on the freeway in california, 
we need to get organs from someone, but they are making informed 
decisions and are risking only their own life.  But I hardly think you 
would have a book about things that are truly dangerous that are 
presented as an equal choice (helmet or no helmet) just to provide a 
balance of information. 

Joylyn

Susan C. Jacoby wrote:

> Gwen,
> You said:
>
> "Despite my personal bias towards bf, I must provide a balanced 
> informational look at bf and formula feeding in my subject guide."
>
> Just asking..... What exactly IS a balanced look at breastfeeding and 
> formula feeding?
>
> Is this just someone else's bias?  To believe that the two feeding 
> methods are "equal?"
>
> Is there evidence for elevating formula feeding to the same health and 
> safety standard as breastfeeding?  I think not.  Your bias is not 
> merely personal.  It is evidence based.  Can you question the premise 
> rather than going along with the status quo?
>
> Sue Jacoby, IBCLC
> Clovis, CA
>
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