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Breastfeeding Advocate Asks Babble to Remove Her “Momination”

September 11, 2011




A little over a year ago, I wrote a post calling out popular parenting website Babble for trying to dupe breastfeeding moms by putting ads for a 1-800 number feeding expert line run by infant formula brand Similac on its Breastfeeding Guide and other baby related content. Despite the fact that global public health experts [...]

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Guest Post: Inside the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference

October 6, 2010




When I saw my friend Maya (@MarfMom) tweeting about some of the things she saw at the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference, I asked her if she would be willing to share some of her observations with me in a guest post. While I am disgusted by many of the things she has to say, [...]

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Lies, lies and more lies: 3 year government crackdown can’t keep formula companies from misleading consumers

January 12, 2010




Canada has signed the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes. The Canadian government encourages the infant formula industry to comply with the Code, which means not marketing or promoting infant formula in any way. I explained this and more in my post that concluded Nestle and other infant formula manufacturers do aggressively promote [...]

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Sabotage

May 4, 2009




They want you to fail. Their bottom line depends on it. Have you ever heard of a wolf in sheep’s clothing? This is it. Formula companies do not support breastfeeding. They want to sabotage you. They want to exploit any iota of doubt that you have, any moment of weakness to get you to try [...]

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