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Sandra Steingraber <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:34:00 -0500
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I am the author to which Ruth refers below, and the title of my new
book is Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood.  I will
indeed be speaking and signing books next week in Toronto.  The book
does indeed contain a lengthy discussion of breast milk
contamination.  However, I suggest, Ruth, that you read the book
before deciding that it has the power to dissuade even one woman from
breastfeeding, doing "a disservice to us all."

As for how the Canadian media receives my message, we shall see how
it plays out.  So far, my book tours has taken me to 13 U.S. cities,
and not a single review or newspaper report, to my knowledge, has
misrepresented my position on breastfeeding.  Perhaps this is
because, whereever I go and with whomever I grant interviews, I
identify myself first and foremost as a nursing mother.  At public
events, I often nurse my infant son even as I speak about breast milk
contaminants, including, most recently at a podium at Carnegie Hall
in Pittsburgh where I addressed an audience of nearly 500 women.

If you want to read excerpts of Having Faith or articles written
about my opinions on breastfeeding in a chemically contaminated world
(including in the New York Times), see http://www.steingraber.com

Please read the book or hear me speak before you judge. Or take a
look in the lactnet archives at some of the posts I've already made
to this list re: breast milk contamination.

Ruth, I hope to see you in Toronto.

warmly, Sandra Steingraber


>Date:    Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:54:26 -0500
>From:    "R. Bacon" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: New book

I just received an invitation to a book launching next week in Toronto.
The book is written by a new mother who is also PHD. She is writing=20
from the perspective of all the toxic chemicals in our midst but
specifically how this affects pregnancy, the foetus and of course
breastfeeding.  I am sure the media will have a field day with this
information and will sensationalize the information about breastmilk.

Even if there is only one woman who decides not to breastfeed
because of this book, it will have done a disservice to us all, as well=20
as having given more information to the formula industry.=20

Ruth Bacon
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Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
110 Rice Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853
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www.steingraber.com

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