Just a quick note to let you know, I've just been thrown off a BBC World 
Service programme, for saying that unsafe formula feeding kills babies 
in Africa.

The programme went out live at 6pm, BST time, here, and I was booked, at 
the last minutes, to do an hour of the whole world programme, and then 
the 30 minutes afterwards, on Africa only.

When I asked the discussion about breastfeeding be 'creepy' be about 
women being put in impossible position, and maybe we should look at why 
an intelligent, articulate, well educated woman in the UK would be so 
creeped out by a baby touching her breast... the mic was closed.  When I 
said we needed to address the pressure to formula feed, not the pressure 
to breastfeed... the mic was closed.  When I stated that 4000 babies die 
everyday from unsafe formula feeding... the mic was closed.

I was then taken off air, and roundly shouted at by the producer.  I 
challenged her, and stated that we could not have global context 
discussion on breastfeeding, without discussing formula feeding, and how 
on earth could she ask a women in Nairobi if she'd support a woman to 
formula feed if she wanted to?  That ignoring the situation in Africa 
with formula, and acting if we were all in the UK, was precisely the 
bias they were showing.  She said the World Service was for everyone, 
and I asked how a women in the slums in Kenya, tonight, would feel, 
listening to us prattling on about formula feeding as a supported 
choice.  Did she have any idea who many babies would die tonight, in 
Kenya, from formula feeding?

She blew up, said I'd said formula feeding kills babies, and that was 
making her very angry, and I was out of the programme.  A taxi would be 
called to take me away right away, and good bye.

I'll blog thoroughly when I've had a cup of tea,

But, somehow, I thought you'd like to to know, about the censorship that 
occurred this evening, at the hands of the BBC World Service.

Morgan Gallagher

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