The following is a brief rant.  Delete if you wish.

In times of disaster and crisis, when food and safe water are scarce,
the AIM manufacturers really reap psychological and financial benefits.
 They get to ride in like noble knights on horse to rescue the starving
infants by providing free artificial infant milk.  Isn't that wonderful
of them?  Talk about a fabulous PR opportunity.  Let's watch their
sales; I would be willing to bet they show a surge in Katrina's
aftermath.  The fact that they make enormous profits from a product
that has been shown to be detrimental to world health is never
mentioned.  They come out smelling like a rose.

To say this irritates and infuriates me is an understatement.

Carole


> Date:    Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:00:28 -0500
> From:    Ginger Carney <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Cover picture on Sept. 12 Issue of Newsweek
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone noticed this, but I couldn' t help but see the
> irony in it.  The cover pictures a scene from the horrible sight in
> New
> Orleans after the hurricane hit.  It appears to be a desperate, low
> income mother holding a fairly new baby in one arm with a baby bottle
> in
> hand, and also clinging to maybe a 1-year old baby in the other arm. 
> Both of these are her children---she  couldn't have breastfed the
> first
> child very long. if at all, since these babies are very close in age.
> 
> In her right hand, interestingly enough, is a bottle of water with a
> label that reads "Nestle."  What a powerful picture.  It really made
> me
> stop and think....   A pitiful situation and there it is staring us
> in
> the face---NESTLE.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ginger Carney, RD, LDN, IBCLC
> Clinical Nutriiton Mgr./Lactation Consultant
> Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center
> Memphis, TN  
> [log in to unmask]



		
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