>I agree that the photo is unfortunate, and the author seems to
>have "borrowed" heavily from Sandra Steingraber's book "Having Faith"
>(which is excellent; Steingraber is a firmly pro-breastfeeding ecologist
>who passed around a jar of her own expressed milk while testifying at a
>U.N. session on persistent organic pollutants). However, I don't think the
>article is propaganda.


I agree, Jennifer. The article seems to me to be a genuine, if 
polemical, attempt to give a wake-up call. I don't get the impression 
we are invited to think formula is better.

I think the photo is probably meant to be artistic, to be honest....I 
don't think we can assume it is the author, either. I don't see the 
name of the baby as 'Emanuelle' is a deliberate attempt to echo those 
soft-porn Emanuelle movies of the 70s. It could just as easily echo 
'Emanuel', the old Hebrew name meaning 'God is with us' which is used 
in Christian hymns as well as in Old Testament prophesy.  The photo 
has ambiguities in it, even so, but I really don't think it should be 
taken to undermine the article's essentially pro-bf, pro-woman, 
pro-baby, anti-corporate stance.

But I may be entirely wrong.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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