hi... ok i'm not implying that anyone is criticising morgan for her stance on oxfam... however, i want to say that i wholly support her in taking oxfam's attitude to the baby bottle VERY seriously .. i refuse to excuse them because they " do good things" .... so often i see aid organizations take the view that "western things = good" "developing nation practices= bad"... e.g. like the idea of these "poor women" having natural births without access to fetal monitors... and the like... i think there are dangerous assumptions in these organizations that serve no purpose but to disempower the very countries they try to help.... that oxfam IS NOT AWARE of deaths from using formula suggests to me that they do NOT know what the heck they're doing and surely there are grassroots orgs that are actually working to help countries with the right information.... suggests a recklessness and misinformed organization who cannot be wholly effective and could quite
 possibly ultimately harm.. and i'm not convinced that this ignorance is purely limited to PR depts..... 

rgds
georgia (opa!)




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