>  >>All African nations are now at risk to become increasingly a bottlefeeding
>>>culture.
>
>
>>I know what you mean, Valerie...and I did not want to sound complacent.
>
>>I know the risks that a bottle feeding culture can be imposed on a
>>breastfeeding one.
>
>With respect, I don't think it is a case of a bottle feeding culture being
>imposed on a breastfeeding culture, but a bottlefeeding ideology ravaging a
>breastfeeding culture and destroying it.


Yes - culture is not an accurate word. I think ideology is not quite
the right one, either....it's actually a plain old-fashioned bit of
capitalism/ imperialism, an economic imperative. The ideology comes
as a justification for the money-making.



>  Looking at the HIV/AIDS research
>is that bleak.
>
>And once it happens in one whole continent, there will be a spillover
>effect.
>
>Magda Sachs
>Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK


This is also linked to the research that pops up from time to time,
saying how poisonous mother's milk is because of pollution - the
latest showing is in yesterday's UK Sunday Times

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/   go to contents and find the story.
It is from the Netherlands, and based on a sample of 207 babies, half
of whom were formula fed and half of whom were bf - definitions of
those terms were not given. The babies who were bf had higher levels
of PCBs in their bodies.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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