Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials
Spojené státy vyhrožovaly Ekvádoru, aby stáhl rezoluci o výhodách kojení
Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials
A Brooklyn mother unable to nurse fed her child donated breast milk. The $70 billion infant formula industry has seen sales flatten in wealthy countries in recent years.
...A Russian delegate said the decision to introduce the breast-feeding resolution was a matter of principle.
“We’re
not trying to be a hero here, but we feel that it is wrong when a big
country tries to push around some very small countries, especially on an
issue that is really important for the rest of the world,” said the
delegate, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized
to speak to the media.
He said the
United States did not directly pressure Moscow to back away from the
measure. Nevertheless, the American delegation sought to wear down the
other participants through procedural maneuvers in a series of meetings
that stretched on for two days, an unexpectedly long period...
...Elisabeth Sterken, director of the
Infant Feeding Action Coalition in Canada, said four decades of research
have established the importance of breast milk, which provides
essential nutrients as well as hormones and antibodies that protect
newborns against infectious disease.
A 2016 study in The Lancet found that universal breast-feeding would prevent 800,000 child deaths a year across the globe and yield $300 billion in savings from reduced health care costs and improved economic outcomes for those reared on breast milk.
Scientists
are loath to carry out double-blind studies that would provide one
group with breast milk and another with breast milk substitutes. “This
kind of ‘evidence-based’ research would be ethically and morally
unacceptable,” Ms. Sterken said.
Abbott
Laboratories, the Chicago-based company that is one of the biggest
players in the $70 billion baby food market, declined to comment.
Nestlé,
the Switzerland-based food giant with significant operations in the
United States, sought to distance itself from the threats against
Ecuador and said the company would continue to support the international code
on the marketing of breast milk substitutes, which calls on governments
to regulate the inappropriate promotion of such products and to
encourage breast-feeding.
In addition
to the trade threats, Todd C. Chapman, the United States ambassador to
Ecuador, suggested in meetings with officials in Quito, the Ecuadorean
capital, that the Trump administration might also retaliate by
withdrawing the military assistance it has been providing in northern
Ecuador, a region wracked by violence spilling across the border from Colombia, according to an Ecuadorean government official who took part in the meeting...
Breastfeeding: achieving the new normal
us
usa
crony capitalism
corporate mafia
Žádné komentáře:
Okomentovat