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Morgan Gallagher <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:28:47 +0100
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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-there-is-a-smart-drug-ndash-its-called-breast-milk-849940.html

"Imagine if today, scientists discovered a drug that could save 13 per 
cent of all the babies who currently die. Now imagine that drug also 
made your baby cleverer – and dramatically slashed her chances of 
developing heart disease, diabetes, leukaemia, asthma or obesity as an 
adult. Oh: and imagine it was free.

The "drug" exists. It is called breast milk. Yet in the developed world, 
we often stigmatise women who give it to their babies as "creepy". In 
the developing world, we allow corporations to tug babies from their 
mother's nipple, and put them on to powders that bring more profit – and 
more death."

Morgan

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