Sherry has mentioned that Ross is sponsoring an educational dinner for staff at her hospital. Obviously the staff does not realize who is paying for the "dinner" or should I say bribery. I wonder if the nurses realize that their patients are paying for the dinner. I bet if we asked the patients they might rather have better informed nurses to help with breastfeeding. Please send any of these invitations and materials from these dinners to NABA as we are actively working for measures to counter and eliminate this practice. You have the option of not going and asking others not to go. One group of breastfeeding advocates created breastfeeding information flyers to counter the formula hype and passed them out outside the restaurant to people attending the dinner. They called all of the local media-TV and newspapers especially- to come and cover the protest and picketing! You might ask your corporate compliance people if this practice should be allowed at your hospital. Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC Weston, MA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html