I'd like to contextualise this further.
The value of a gun, or a knife, is absolute. If a tiger is attacking
you, a gun is vital. If you wish to eat meat, so is a knife. Or cut
cloth, or scrape off a beard.
You wouldn't dream of putting a knife or a gun, in any publicity or
promotion, unless you were using it to connote danger.
A baby bottle, is much like a gun or a knife. In the right place, at
the right time, a useful tool. It is also very much like a gun or a
knife - in the wrong place, at the wrong time, it kills.
It kills babies.
Pump companies do exist that can promote their own products, without
undercutting code. Without promoting bottles, and bottle feeding culture
above the breast.
What one company can do, all companies can do.
Morgan Gallagher
Karleen Gribble wrote:
> It need to be absolutely clear...the value of breastpumps in
> particular circumstances is not in question, the value of bottles in
> particular circumstances is not in question either....however,
> marketing of bottles to parents is unethical, marketing of breastpumps
> so that breastfeeding is undermined is also problematic. The question
> is should those who seek to support breastfeeding women promote
> companies that market bottles unethically or market pumps in a way
> that undermines breastfeeding??
>
>
> Pam McArthur wrote
>
> I think you can look at any company and find they are not perfect,
> because
> we do not live in a perfect world. I feel Medela does all it can to
> promote
> breastfeeding.
>
>
>
>
>
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