File this in the category of Ignorance Disguised as Choice.
Breastfeeding and Formula feeding are not two equal and different "options" that are as inconsequential as you make them sound. Formula feeding caries serious health risks that we are only just beginning to understand. What we know right now is that the previous two generations of "formula-feeders" have now exposed their children to cancers and other health risk factors that breastfeeding would have protected them from. There is mountains of medical evidence to prove this.
It is a baby's birth right to be breastfed. It is our job to feed them properly, instead of mainlining McDonalds (or its liquid equivolent) into their system.
Think about it this way: the previous generation did all kinds of terrible things to this planet in the name of convenience or advancement. We're trying to clean up a lot of those messes now. This is the same issue with breastfeeding. Every single health organization in the world recommends breast over formula, and formula companies even have to have warning labels on the sides of the cans TELLING their consumers that they shouldn't be using their product. Sound familiar? Sounds like the warning label on a pack of cigarettes, if you ask me. So why aren't mothers listening? Because they don't know the truth. You clearly don't know the truth if you think that there is any argument about breast being the only way we should be feeding our offspring.
Breastfeeding is a feminist issue. Our gender, and our generation, have been undermined and hurt by the FORMULA companies and their bogus propaganda. It's time to take back our bodies and its abilities.
Or, we can keep buying their cigarettes and formula, and tell ourselves it's our "choice" to let them do this to us.
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File this in the category of Ignorance Disguised as Choice.
Breastfeeding and Formula feeding are not two equal and different "options" that are as inconsequential as you make them sound. Formula feeding caries serious health risks that we are only just beginning to understand. What we know right now is that the previous two generations of "formula-feeders" have now exposed their children to cancers and other health risk factors that breastfeeding would have protected them from. There is mountains of medical evidence to prove this.
It is a baby's birth right to be breastfed. It is our job to feed them properly, instead of mainlining McDonalds (or its liquid equivolent) into their system.
Think about it this way: the previous generation did all kinds of terrible things to this planet in the name of convenience or advancement. We're trying to clean up a lot of those messes now. This is the same issue with breastfeeding. Every single health organization in the world recommends breast over formula, and formula companies even have to have warning labels on the sides of the cans TELLING their consumers that they shouldn't be using their product. Sound familiar? Sounds like the warning label on a pack of cigarettes, if you ask me. So why aren't mothers listening? Because they don't know the truth. You clearly don't know the truth if you think that there is any argument about breast being the only way we should be feeding our offspring.
Breastfeeding is a feminist issue. Our gender, and our generation, have been undermined and hurt by the FORMULA companies and their bogus propaganda. It's time to take back our bodies and its abilities.
Or, we can keep buying their cigarettes and formula, and tell ourselves it's our "choice" to let them do this to us.
TheFeministBreeder
January 8, 2009 - 11:52amhttp://thefeministbreeder.typepad.com
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