Yes, a valid analogy but stoopid! 
There are some things that formula (or formula marketing) should never be compared to in a context of speaking to the public (or clinicians who may just repeat it to parents). It should never be compared to HIV/AIDS, cigarettes, alcohol or junk food/McDonalds. The analogies may be valid but the comparisons are so highly charged that the message is not heard. 
Karleen Gribble
Australia



On 31/08/2012, at 8:03 AM, welford heather wrote:

> I agree, Pamela, that comparing ff to AIDS can be set in a scientific
> context .
> 
> But this comparison was not done in a scientific forum, or to bf
> supporters, but to a class of expectant parents.
> 
> I aim to tell the truth about infant feeding in the classes I do, but I
> don't distress or anger people, or throw out dramatic comparisons that I
> don't have time to fully explain, and I don't deal in attention-grabbing
> soundbites,  or play into the hands of anti-breastfeeding interests.
> 
> This was an error by the ABM counsellor.
> 
> Heather Welford Neil
> NCT bfc, tutor, UK
> 
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