You know, usually I aim to be articulate, to support opinions with facts, to try to explain things in a helpful manner. I like pointing moms towards good information, and helping explain the source of some mislead opinions and so on. But this morning, I’m just really not feeling it. It’s no surprise that I [...]
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I was reading some old posts over at Just West of Crunchy yesterday, and came across her fabulous 10 Things Breastfeeding Advocates Should Stop Saying article, and it really got me thinking about things. While discussing breastfeeding with breastfeeding advocates, I really hate feeling like they’re defending formula marketing. Now, I don’t mean the women who are [...]
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A lot of people within natural, “AP” circles tend to boycott Nestlé… or hear a lot that others do. In 1887 when Henri Nestlé made his infant formula mixture to ‘save the life’ of a neighbor’s baby whose mother was ill and unable to breastfeed, I don’t think he expected that in a century, his [...]
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Employees dressed up in doctor’s coats or nurse uniforms telling moms formula is healthiest for their babies and handing out free cans… Babies getting diarrhea and dying or getting incredibly ill from contaminated water mixed with their formula… That was in the 80′s, and what started the Nestle boycott. People claim those who boycott need [...]
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Water. It’s a resource that plenty of us take for granted. After all, we can just go to the grocery store and buy cases of plastic bottles of the stuff, jugs of it, have barrels of it delivered to our door, or just turn on our faucet. You don’t really have to work for [...]
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