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Home > Fun & Interesting > Thoughts on Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Quotes"If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence..." -- Gabrielle Palmer, in The Politics of Breastfeeding, London: Pandora Press, 1988, page 1.
"Breastfeeding is a natural "safety net" against the worst effects of poverty. If the child survives the first month of life (the most dangerous period of childhood) then for the next four months or so, exclusive breastfeeding goes a long way toward canceling out the health difference between being born into poverty and being born into affluence .... It is almost as if breastfeeding takes the infant out of poverty for those first few months in order to give the child a fairer start in life and compensate for the injustice of the world into which it was born." --James P. Grant, former Executive Director, UNICEF
"A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants." --Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
"When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do
our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim
an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as
good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology
is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless
women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their
children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do
it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism
in its purest form."
"Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment
lacking informed consent in the history of medicine."
----- Unknown
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