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Lydia de Raad <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:03:17 +0100
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> Part of the problem is that the people who disagree with Marianne and mee, 
> feel that they
> have breastfeeding on the top of their list. They feel a modern 
> breastfeeding mom cannot do
> without a pump and bottles.  They say that marketing bottles by a 
> pump-manufacturer is
> breastfeeding friendly. They feel that bottles are these days associated 
> with breastfeeding
> (are they really??????)
> In short: they think they comply with the spirit of the code, and we 
> disagree...
>
> Heleen
> of the Dutch IBFAN group


----------What annoyes me in this discussion (as an area council-member of 
La Leche League Netherlands) is that the content of the WHO-code is pushed 
aside as "does not count in the Netherlands". Understand what I mean?
All five BF-orgs in the Netherlands have stated somewhere in their 
statutes/bylaws (or whatever these things are called) that they "follow the 
Code". And now that trouble is popping up (critical questions about 
accepting advertisement-money from code-violators), the WHO-code is suddenly 
outdated and can be pushed aside, because Modern Mothers in the Netherlands 
nééd pumps and this addressing of companies like Medela and Avent as 
"code-violators" is not important.
Ah well, this stupid outdated WHO-code-violator-thing, come on, we have 
outgrown that.

Well. I can work with everybody who wants to discusss the content in the 
WHO-code in depth. I love the process of discussing, thinking and visioning. 
But: this discussion should take place at the offices of the WHO (and on 
this list ofcourse :-))) and after a lot of thinking and weighing etc.etc. 
it míght be that the Code is reworded - or whatever. I would applaud that, 
if the process is transparent and incorruptable. But untill the New Code is 
there, organisations who say they follow the code, have to follow the code 
as it is now. The Classic Code.

Yes. I know. I'm strict. It's sooooooo easy to have strict principles :-))))

Lydia, LLL, Netherlands
Don't try, do. Or do not. There is no try. ~ Yoda 

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