> I certainly think it is good to make formula better for the babies of those
> mothers who choose not to breastfeed. However, much of the info on this new
> formula is media hype and marketing. I would hate for this advertising
> campaign to make anyone think that using this or any other brand of formula
> is almost like breast milk. In fact, formulas of different brands are much
> more like each other, than any of them are like breast milk.

someone i was talking to the other day made the point that since these
are sold more expensively than "regular" formulae, it may open some
people's eyes to the real goals of the formula companies:  money
making.  if they can market these ("supposedly better") formulas at a
higher price & still live with themselves and their (lack of)
conscience, it is because they are (the company on the whole) unable to
see that (assuming these formlae are "better") they are cutting off the
babies in the poorest families...and I don't think they really CARE
even.

Fio nak
Mama to Sandrine Leïlou, 13/03/00, still nursin' away & full of cold
and
#2, 11/2002

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