These are two of my favorite and useful quotes:
Nancy Holtzman RN BSN IBCLC
Great Beginnings New Mothers Groups
near Boston MA
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Gabrielle Palmer in the The Politics of Breastfeeding: Chapter 1
"Why Breastfeeding is Political"
"If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally
balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated
disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in
quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of
their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock
market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the
wealth and influence of everyone involed would increase dramaticaaly.
Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the
beginning of human existence, yet they form the half of the world's people
who are the least wealthy and the least powerful." p. 19, 2nd edition.
Pandora, London. 1993.
and:
Ms. Magazine (Jan/Feb 1997):
"If a medicine were to be developed that could prevent the deaths of a
million or more children per year, greatly reduce childhood illness and
disease, produce healthier and perhaps even smarter adults, and, in its
administration, contribute to preventing ovarian and premenopausal breast
cancer and osteoporosis in women, it would certainly be hailed as the
greatest miracle in the history of medical science. If, furthermore,
this medicine had no ill side effects, and its production had absolutely
no adverse environmental impact, we would scarcely be able to believe our
good fortune as a species. Now, what if the fantasy were to be extended
a bit, so that we imagine this miracle substance to be not only all of
the above, but also free of charge? In other words, no one stands to
profit economically from its production, promotion, or distribution. In
fact, the only adverse impact at all would be an economic one on a
billion-dollar multinational industry built upon a competing but clearly
inferior product..." - Barbara Quick
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