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Fantastic Opinion Piece on BF  

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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...lk-849940.html

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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.
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This was posted on an LJ list that I'm on. I bounced when I read it.
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Hey, I got the first published comment
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As for this little snippet: "...Cow & Gate powder was sold with a crown on the tin, bragging the Windsor children used it. (Look how that turned out.)..."

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Awesome, awesome editorial!
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fantastic! i'm off to forward it to everyone i know.
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