What I sent to Scripps Howard Editors:


It takes a special kind of cynicism to be a rich white member of the
ruling class, claiming to care about poor third world mothers, when
your solution is for them to spend most of their meager income
purchasing artificial baby milk from a multi-national corporation.
After all, breastmilk is one thing poor mothers actually are able to
produce for free.

Just last month, a new Australian study valued Aussie's mother's milk
at 2.2 billion a year.  No wonder the corporate elite is worried about
the WHO standing with thousands of other groups and professionals who
take a stand about the value of human milk for human babies.

I find it curious, that a so called "scholar" from a "think tank" can
write something so unbelievably, simplistically, innacurate and
uninformed, and have it printed purely on the basis of his elite
connections.  Has Mr. Glassman a degree in a lactation-related field?
Has he studied health science, perhaps?   Is he an HIV expert? Did he
do a stint in the Peace Corps and return to dedicate his life to the
concerns of the poor and hungry?

No, this is a man who a colleague admiringly described as "know(ing)
how to talk like an expert on something even if he doesn't know
anything about it" according to the Washington Monthly.  This is a man
who writes PR for corporate clients.   Yes, it takes a special kind of
moral code to cry great big alligator tears for poor babies in the third
world even while trying to sell them something they don't even need.

Sue Jacoby, IBCLC
Clovis, CA
http://vanlassie.blogspot.com/

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