Miss OTOP and breast milk - (INQ7.net)

“BREASTFEEDING is a natural process,” writes Dr. Elvira Lichauco Henares-Esguerra, a lactation consultant and one of the founders of Children for Breastfeeding Inc. (By way of explaining her kilometric name, the doctor requests that her mother’s surname be acknowledged as well.)

“All human beings are endowed with a tremendous capacity to nurture, heal and regenerate… But milk companies, with their unethical marketing practices, have led mothers to believe that it is normal to give formula milk to infants. The WHO and the Unicef have maintained that breastfeeding is the norm, not the exception; it is the gold standard against which cow’s milk is judged totally inadequate.”

In the book “Woman: An Intimate Geography,” Natalie Angier writes that “the more we look at breast milk and the more we find within it, the more we are driven to marvel that anybody can survive, much less thrive on its wretched artificial substitute. Yet many have.” A scientist quoted in Angier’s book notes, “As a scientist, I can’t help but notice that millions of babies have never seen human milk, and they apparently have not been harmed. At the same time, I can’t escape the feeling that nature went to enormous lengths to produce a particular food, and that must mean something.”



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