Actually Nina, It is not Dr.Buescher who made the comments about bf in the 
developing world- that is a quote from the Slate article.

Dr.Buescher is amazingly entertaining and definitely communicates the 
exciting things he studies about human milk! I think it would be a wonderful 
thing if more people in the US heard about breastmilk from him!

I do understand your frustration though, in the distinction between 
developed and developing nations.

warmly,

Jennifer, LLLL in FL

>From:    Nina Berry <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Stephen Buescher reply to Slate Magazine article
>
>Hi all
>Of course, I am not really annoyed with Dr Buescher and I can see that
>everything he says is accurate.  The difficulty is with communication.
>Scientists are notoriously bad at communicating the significance of their
>(exciting, fascinating, accurate) knowledge of their very specific areas of
>expertise to the bigger picture. I am frustrated because I can see that the
>US (even more than here, where at least we have decent initiation rates)
>needs a strong consistent public health message - that breastfeeding is
>important to human health. I don't think that most people understand that
>such a piece is discussing one very limited area of immunobiology - and 
>they
>extrapolate (given an ambient culture that is hostile towards breastfeeding
>- ar at least more supportive of artificial feeding) that breastfeeding
>doesn't matter all that much after all - and that is what gets up my
>...um... nose.
>
>Cheers
>Nina Berry BA/Bed(Hons) Dip Arts(Phil)
>Breastfeeding Counsellor
>PhD Candidate - "Ethical Issues in the marketing of 'Toddler Milks'"
>

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