History of Feminism

it does illustrate how frustrating it is to see generations of people injured by the marketing practices of the formula manufacturers who have made billions on formula and presenting it as the way to live a "modern" productive life.

I was a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa in the late 70's and the bottle formula ads were all around the capital city. I had a picture in my photo album of my sister breastfeeding her baby. This picture was taken out of my album and showed to all the women in the village that I lived in by the first wife of the head man in the compound that I lived in.

This was the very first picture any woman in this village had ever seen of a white woman breastfeeding a baby. All the ads made it seem as though the way to the "prosperity" of the modern white world was through giving babies formula, that was somehow scientifically better than breastmilk. As though they were reducing their children's chance of success BY breastfeeding them.

I think that unless you have been exposed to the tactics of these multinationals peddling this stuff, you may not understand the very bad effects on the population.

I am not advocating this approach, but I am not surprised to see a backlash against the multinationals peddling formula so relentlessly.