Rosemary McNaughton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Not that I think this negates the argument that breastfeeding is easier on
> the environment, but the diet of the breastfeeding mother should be taken
> into account, too.  A lactating woman who eats animal products to make up
> her extra caloric needs is placing her nursing child higher on the food
> chain than a child who subsists on cow-milk formula and two steps higher
> than soy formula.  (Another reason not to "drink milk to make milk!")  Has
> anyone done an analysis of the differences taking this into account?

While you're adding factors like that one, how about the environmental
impact of the added healthcare required? Estimates have lain somewhere
around eight hundred dollars excess healthcare consumption per
artificially fed child in North America; that's an awful lot of
transport to appointments, antibiotics, hospital admissions with
consumables, etc.

Lara Hopkins

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