Re: > Taking that one step further: how does one calculate the carbon
footprint
> of a given unit of formula? Starting form the calf, to growing the grain
> or otherwise creating the feed for the calf until she can produce milk, to
> the amt of milk it takes to produce that stated unit of formula? Then
> there's shipping, storing, stocking, selling.
> Curious minds want to know....
> Anyone else?
> Phyllis
>

I've used the Malta Breastfeeding Foundation's downloadable pps re: "Infant
Feeding Affects Climate Change" for a number of presentations -- always
makes a big impression! My computer wants to download it, though, every time
I go to page vs. displaying the page address, so I'm including a link to an
article I wrote last year for Babygooroo -- there are links for MBF and the
pps... Go to (but cut/paste is required due to quotations marks in address,
which won't let me make a tiny url):

http://www.babygooroo.com/index.php/2008/07/02/breastfeeding-the-original-
“environmentally-safe”-resource/


And the greenhouse gasses producted by ruminant digestion of cellulose is
> significant.
> Karleen Gribble
> Australia



Love this -- reminds me of Dr. Steve Buescher's presentation on the
different gases emitted by the formula-fed vs. breastfed infant. He noted
several greenhouse gases for formula-fed infants. But exclusively BF babies
emit hydrogen. He suggested one avoid lighting a match near their back ends
but no worries about the environment!



-- 
Karen Gromada
www.karengromada.com/
http://www.marchforbabies.org/karengromada

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