This sort of thing makes me shiver.....

A few months ago I posted about an 'organic' baby formula on sale in some
UK  health shops, made by Hipp (German ABM manufacturer), and about the
customer's letter in the store's magazine which outlined why she wanted it
for her baby  - basically because she thought her own breast milk was so
polluted,  she needed this 'clean' alternative based on 'organic' cow's
milk.  I said how sad this was.

Kate Halberg's forwarded post sounds to me as if it's a similar thing.

Why does a 'natural' formula make me shiver? After all, in the absence of
breast milk, I want formula fed babies to have the best alternative -
surely?

Yes, of course - but I do not trust marketing and commercialism, cynical
ol' me. It's not the chemicals and additives in formula that make it far
inferior to breast milk (though they cannot help). It's the fact it's
another animal's milk, and cannot possibly have the 'right' ingredients. No
matter what you do or don't do to formula, no matter how you advertise it,
dress it up, clean it, dust it, teach it to sing 'happy birthday to
you'....it's still  ABM, with the accent on the  'A'.

Natural?  Ha!

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK