>> How about starting with making "formula" a prescription item (as donor
>> breast milk is) instead of available at every supermarket in town?
>>
>> Naomi
>
>
> Eeeek, no....:)
>
> Medicalisation of infant feeding is how we got into this whole mess
> in the first place!!
>
> Let women choose, and let bf advocates work on the culture to change
> it!
>
> Heather Welford Neil

Government already has controls over the all the food and drugs sold in
the marketplace--food safety laws are the best example, and do work to
protect us.  This is an example of increasing the protections already
in place in order to protect the consumer.  In the UK, in the US, in
all countries there is some type of protection with regard to
corporations marketing drugs and foods to consumers.  Medicalization of
birth and breastfeeding is a different issue than exerting controls
over a powerful, manipulative industry.  Consumer protection, as a
whole, has been successful in most areas and certainly the principles
should apply to this particularly vulnerable group of consumers.

Arly

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