2018-07-08 at 9:46 PM UTC
The New York Times
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
By ANDREW JACOBS
A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.
When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.
The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.
The showdown over the issue was recounted by more than a dozen participants from several countries, many of whom requested anonymity because they feared retaliation from the United States.
Health advocates scrambled to find another sponsor for the resolution, but at least a dozen countries, most of them poor nations in Africa and Latin America, backed off, citing fears of retaliation, according to officials from Uruguay, Mexico and the United States.
“We were astonished, appalled and also saddened,” said Patti Rundall, the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, who has attended meetings of the assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, since the late 1980s.
“What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the world hostage and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on best way to protect infant and young child health,” she said.
In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.
Ladies-
Post your boobies HERE or the Russians win!
2018-07-08 at 9:47 PM UTC
joerell
African Astronaut
[twine our circinate supersymmetry]
No voting for Clinton made you look like an asshole.
2018-07-08 at 9:54 PM UTC
Grimace
motherfucker
[my enumerable hindi guideword]
Voting. HA! Either way you vote, you're shunned by nearly half of the population. That is...unless you
don't vote.
"But Grimace! Voting is your American right! You should utilize it to help bring about the change you want to see in government!"
I can't vote for another few years. I am a convicted felon. OH WELL!
"The right to vote is our most important right we have"
Voting doesn't fucking matter. Who is destined to win, wins. Votes mean fuck all.
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2018-07-08 at 9:56 PM UTC
joerell
African Astronaut
[twine our circinate supersymmetry]
Considering millions of illegals voted for Clinton it's amazing Trump even won. Great president...the best.
2018-07-09 at 1:30 AM UTC
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
Who cares, OP? The little missile boy did a freaking roundhouse on Trump. Kudos "rocket man". LMRAO
2018-07-09 at 12:33 PM UTC
Cupo-
When will you be gracing these pages with nekkid pictures of your unrestrained boobies?
2018-07-09 at 1:06 PM UTC
kroz
weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
no one cares , trump is a puppet like all the presidents the last 40 years
/fred
2018-07-09 at 2:18 PM UTC
joerell
African Astronaut
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You get your information from the NYT...LMAO. OP is such an idiot and always posting complete BS. In reality Trump is one of the best presidents ever and a strong leader. Unlike corrupt politicians of the past like Obama, Clinton and Bush, Trump is making necessary changes and why he's receieving so much support from patriots. Traitors fill the left...socaialists are a cancer. In less than 2 years in power Trump has repaired a lot of damage Obama and Clinton created during heir 8 years and he would be more successful if corrupt entities like Mueller would allow him to govern. Look at what socialists have done to Europe...destroyed by migration, hypocricy and corruption where globalists control every region for profits. Lefties would rather support communist ANTIFA than protect the Constituion and flood America with illegals void of any documention changing it to a third world country. It's great to see patriots on the right in Italy, Hungry, UK, Spain and other nations side with Trump and not the beauracracy in Berlin trying to to destroy the world. Ironically the Democrates wanted a dictatorship by electing Clinton and after all the crimes justice still prevailed. Trump is treating the rest of the world the way they should be treated and forcing them to understand that there is no free ride anymore. America will no longer boost up the Chinese economy to remain poor with a crippled military and God help us if Trump is removed. The US will no longer exist and all freedom will be lost.
2018-07-09 at 2:21 PM UTC
What’s the point?
Breast feeding is natural
Do it...don’t do it
Not the governments job to promote natural things.
If you’re a mother and you don’t know about breast feeding,then you’re a horrible mother.
If the government outlaws breast feeding,then I’ll have a problem.
I have no problem breathing without costly government promotion...
2018-07-09 at 2:58 PM UTC
tee hee hee
Naturally Camouflaged
[slangily complete this slumberer]
Cue the SWJs:
....trump is going to outlaw breastfeeding!! Resist!!!!
😂😂
tee hee hee
Naturally Camouflaged
[slangily complete this slumberer]
Cue the SWJs:
"I stand with Ecuador!!!!"...meanwhile they have not once thought of the country until the moment Trump and Ecuador has been mentioned in the same sentence this week.
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2018-07-09 at 3:03 PM UTC
joerell
African Astronaut
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Democrates want to make pedophilia legal...lol.
2018-07-09 at 4:22 PM UTC
Feeding of children should be discouraged be it from a tit or a bottle....especially if the child in question is dark skinned.
2018-07-09 at 4:24 PM UTC
joerell
African Astronaut
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Tacos and burgers excluded.
2018-07-09 at 6:14 PM UTC
Joe-
Who were you on DH?
I'm trying to remember which one of the assholes you were.
