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| Crepes 07/08/18 12:40:01 PM #1: | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html 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, 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. 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. 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. How the fuck can the US be against breast feeding? And to the extent of threatening other countries to stop promoting it. --- https://imgur.com/bbzZKws Praxis Makes Perfect ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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