Trump Administration Opposes Major Breastfeeding Resolution

[phands]

There is no depth to which the Orange Nazi will not sink, and dig deeper into...

At the World Health Assembly in Geneva this spring, officials expected a major resolution encouraging breastfeeding worldwide to easily receive enough votes from government delegates to pass — until the Trump administration opposed it.
According to the New York Times, the U.S.’s decision to side against breastfeeding shocked World Health officials and set off a contentious debate, which more than a dozen people from several countries recounted for the report. The specific part of the resolution with which Americans officials reportedly took issue was the language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breastfeeding,” as well a passage that asked policymakers to no longer promote food that could have detrimental effects on the health of young children.

This is a direct sop to major lobbyist companies like Nestle, who routinely sabotage breastfeeding for profit motives, and as a result kill babies and children in poorer countries. Once again the filth in the white house condones death for profit.

According to 2016 Lancet study cited in the Times report, universal breastfeeding would prevent 800,000 child deaths across the world every year, as well as yield $300 billion in savings from reduced health care costs.

 

[Horatio Parker]

Not attempting to let Trump off the hook, but the history of US backed formula promotion over breast feeding has been around for a while.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6

 

[phands]

Not attempting to let Trump off the hook, but US attempts to promote formula over breast feeding has been around for a while.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6

Oh, I know. The formula companies used to go into maternity wards in the US, and actively sabotage breastfeeding, so they could sell more formula. That has been banned here, but is still routine in many poorer countries. Worse still, once in the formula trap, breastfeeding fails, and is almost impossible to retrieve. Then, when the free formula they are forced to feed to their infants in hospital runs out, they have to start buying it. This generally costs most of the income for an entire family.

Then some really nasty consequences manifest::-

• The cost is so high that the rest of the family go hungry because they can' afford other foods.

• Often, sterile water is unavailable, so the formula is mixed with dirty water, with disastrous results fir the infant.

There has been the Campaign Against Nestle for decades, but these companies have obscene amounts of money, and just buy politicians.

 

[braces_for_impact]

The U.S. is looking more and more like a mob boss these days.

 

[Underseer]

US opposition to breast-feeding resolution stuns world

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.

Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.

So what if decades of research shows that breast feeding is better for babies? Infant formula manufacturers want more profit!

Are we great yet?

 

[phands]

The U.S. is looking more and more like a mob boss these days.

I think that's an apt description of the horrible orange scum bag's position.

 

[phands]

Yeah - I posted the same topic in the parent forum last week. For a couple of decades, I've been involved with Breastfeeding charities in the UK and Ireland, and have become somewhat expert on the subject.
This obstruction, and the blackmail of other countries typifies the utter lack of moral fibre in the trumpo shitbag and his lickspittles. There is no reason to oppose breastfeeding, except that vast companies like Nestle make vast profits out of formula milk, at the expense of the lives of countless thousands of babies in poor countries. They were doing it here too, until it got banned. Look for lobbying to get the ban lifted.

I wonder if the Mods could merge our threads?

 

[Patooka]

There is a massive, very profitable business for baby formula and powdered milk exports to China. I have no doubt that factored in with the US decision to oppose the resolution. This is a very ham-fisted attempt in regards to trade, which fits the current US governments motives to a T.

 

[phands]

There is a massive, very profitable business for baby formula and powdered milk exports to China. I have no doubt that factored in with the US decision to oppose the resolution. This is a very ham-fisted attempt in regards to trade, which fits the current US governments motives to a T.

Yep..as I said above, obscene amounts of money.

Here's a somewhat old article (last update was May 2017, but it goes back to the 90s in places) detailing just how revolting Nestle is.... It doesn't just talk about breastfeeding...it tackles a few other topics too, such as water rights. Nestle, for instance opposes the idea that access to clean water is a basic human right - the CEO said so. In 2000, Nestle pushed the 2nd World Water Forum to reclassify access to clean water as a "need" rather than a "right". Even now, as California struggles with drought, Nestle are (without a permit since 1968) are pumping aquifers dry, and selling the water at vast profit margins.

Enjoy the article.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

The U.S. is looking more and more like a mob boss these days.

"Looking like?"

I think it's part of human nature to be in denial that something so horribly destructive can be real.

 

[starwater]

No abortion allowed, but the second out of the womb your on your own.

 

[Underseer]

I generally use the report button to request merges

 

[fromderinside]

Just sayin - Never fear Russia is here!
retro: Orange is the new red

Russia steps forward to sponser UN breast feeding initiative:

WHITE HOUSE THREATENED TO ECONOMICALLY CRIPPLE ECUADOR FOR PROMOTING BREASTFEEDING https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/donald-trump-breastfeeding-tariffs

After Trump’s thugs threatened Ecuador with tariffs, health advocates struggled to find another sponsor, as at least a dozen other countries declined, citing fear of economic retaliation. Which, incredibly, led to this:

In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure—and the Americans did not threaten them.​

Faster than a speeding nutcracker, faster than a dropping dumbell, move powerful than a profit margin Orange makes Red look good again.

In other words like the lead claims Orange is the new red

 

[sinkorswim]

Just sayin - Never fear Russia is here!
retro: Orange is the new red

Russia steps forward to sponser UN breast feeding initiative:

WHITE HOUSE THREATENED TO ECONOMICALLY CRIPPLE ECUADOR FOR PROMOTING BREASTFEEDING https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/donald-trump-breastfeeding-tariffs

After Trump’s thugs threatened Ecuador with tariffs, health advocates struggled to find another sponsor, as at least a dozen other countries declined, citing fear of economic retaliation. Which, incredibly, led to this:

In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure—and the Americans did not threaten them.​

Faster than a speeding nutcracker, faster than a dropping dumbell, move powerful than a profit margin Orange makes Red look good again.

In other words like the lead claims Orange is the new red

Follow the money. Trump isn't doing this unless there is someone pushing money his way.

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[Mediancat]

Two threads on this topic have now been merged. What mod hath joined, let no one put asunder.

Rob aka Mediancat

 

[fromderinside]

Like I wrote before -nm-

 

[scombrid]

This is bigger than this particular issue. This is an adminiatration bent on breaking up international alliances on general. Mega companies can exploit individual countries with much more ease if there is no cooperative third party oversite. This is why the Russian mob has teamed up the Heritage Institute and Heartland Foundation on issues like Brexit and busting up NATO, UN, etc... They sell the idea to the plebes on a fiction of freedom from bureaucracy when the goal is corporate power.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

This is bigger than this particular issue. This is an adminiatration bent on breaking up international alliances on general. Mega companies can exploit individual countries with much more ease if there is no cooperative third party oversite. This is why the Russian mob has teamed up the Heritage Institute and Heartland Foundation on issues like Brexit and busting up NATO, UN, etc... They sell the idea to the plebes on a fiction of freedom from bureaucracy when the goal is corporate power.

I must at least partially disagree--one of the big problems with the "free trade" treaties is that they bake in big business wish lists that have very little to do with free trade. That's why I opposed the TPP--it was full of unreasonable protections for big content that gutted fair use. It's a lot easier to deal with a bad law than a bad trade treaty.

A simple example of the problem: Ever notice how you can't find "dolphin-safe" tuna anymore? It got zapped by the WTO because countries that didn't try to keep dolphins out of the nets objected to the marketing advantage that the companies that did got. They got it declared an improper restriction on trade.