Filipino women protest formula company marketing by going to the Supreme
Court bare chested.
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/Health/7BCF998D4131A3D7C22573
000039B81F?OpenDocument
http://tinyurl.com/24rv5l
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view_article.php?article_id=72147



Judge makes biased remark, probably thinking it is clever. 
Judy 
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id
=72125


(UPDATE 3) No replacement for breast milk, lawyer admits 
By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net, Associated Press
Last updated 11:36pm (Mla time) 06/19/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- There is no replacement for breast milk, the lawyer
of a group batting for the use of infant formula has admitted.

[snip]

Chief Justice Reynato Puno gave both parties 30-days to simultaneously
submit their memorandum and ended the session with a thought, "breast milk
is not the best milk but the best milk is human kindness."

[snip]

(Threats from US Chamber of Commerce concerning foreign investment--it boils
down to $$$'s!)
The law was signed for then president Aquino by her executive secretary at
that time, Joker Arroyo.

The dispute has prompted the Washington-based US Chamber of Commerce to
intervene. Its chief sent a letter to Philippine President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo urging her to re-examine the Health Department's plan or
risk the country's "reputation as a stable and viable destination for
investment."

[snip]

(declining Asian rates of breastfeeding)
Exclusive breastfeeding rates during the first four to five months have
dipped from 20 percent in 1998 to 16 percent in 2003 in the Philippines,
where more women with disposable income are working full time and juggling
busy lifestyles like many women in the West.

But unlike mothers in the United States and Europe, who are moving more
toward breastfeeding in the first few months, many in rapidly developing
Asian countries are abandoning the practice.

Thailand has the region's lowest exclusive breastfeeding rate during the
first six months, with only 5.4 percent of mothers nursing. Vietnam's rate
has fallen from 29 percent in 1998 to 15 percent in 2002, while Indonesia
dropped from 42 percent in 1997 to 40 percent in 2002.

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