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Crepes
07/08/18 12:40:01 PM
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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.
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Cheater87
07/08/18 12:40:56 PM
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CableZL
07/08/18 12:50:03 PM
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ROBANN_88
07/08/18 12:51:09 PM
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i don't understand.
why?
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Bloodychess
07/08/18 12:51:39 PM
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Expected from Trump

Disappointed some EU country didnt step in to sponsor
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E32005
07/08/18 12:51:41 PM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
i don't understand.
why?

corporations bought off the president
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s0nicfan
07/08/18 12:53:12 PM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
i don't understand.
why?


The second half of the resolution that calls of policymakers to "restrict the promotion of food products" likely refers to things like formula. My guess is lobbyists successfully bribed the US into shutting the resolution down because it could hurt exports.

Of all the things to stop, though, a WHO resolution on breastfeeding seems like the most petty.
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Crepes
07/08/18 12:57:56 PM
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Bloodychess posted...
Expected from Trump

Disappointed some EU country didnt step in to sponsor


I think Russia did.
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Sayoria
07/08/18 12:59:26 PM
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Baby food is expensive. Trump's friends would make a killing if babies were no longer allowed to breastfeed. Makes sense.

Fuck this assclown and his bullshit.
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megamanfreakXD
07/08/18 12:59:41 PM
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Why the fuck does america not like breast feeding?

Its beneficial and its....free.
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Sayoria
07/08/18 1:00:39 PM
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megamanfreakXD posted...
Why the fuck does america not like breast feeding?

Its beneficial and its....free.

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TheVipaGTS
07/08/18 1:00:57 PM
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megamanfreakXD posted...
Its beneficial and its....free.

that's why. Trump's corporate buddies can't make money off of them.
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Duncanwii
07/08/18 1:01:48 PM
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megamanfreakXD posted...
Why the fuck does america not like breast feeding?

Its beneficial and its....free.

Exactly, it's free. Capitalists hate anything free (like America.)
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E32005
07/08/18 1:02:15 PM
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the party of family values forcing people to use unnatural and non-traditional methods...
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myzz7
07/08/18 1:03:14 PM
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megamanfreakXD posted...
Its beneficial and its....free.

that's the problem
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BWLurker
07/08/18 1:05:08 PM
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Cartoon villain presidency
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Metro2
07/08/18 1:05:42 PM
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If corporations could find a way to charge people to breathe air, they totally would.
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myzz7
07/08/18 1:07:44 PM
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Metro2 posted...
If corporations could find a way to charge people to breathe air, they totally would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZUp2KF5ls" data-time="

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CyricZ
07/08/18 1:08:21 PM
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Metro2 posted...
If corporations could find a way to charge people to breathe air, they totally would.

Or at least they would have been given the freedom to promote their own designer brand of air as "better" than natural air, regardless of whether or not it was true.

That's basically what this move is about.
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LordFarquad1312
07/08/18 1:09:24 PM
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I don't get how you ended up having Captain Planet villains running your country.
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ROBANN_88
07/08/18 1:10:59 PM
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Metro2 posted...
If corporations could find a way to charge people to breathe air, they totally would.

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/15/asia/china-canadian-company-selling-clean-air/index.html
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A_Good_Boy
07/08/18 1:12:06 PM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
I don't get how you ended up having Captain Planet villains running your country.

Anything is permissible if it means the libs get upset.
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kingdrake2
07/08/18 1:44:31 PM
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Sayoria posted...
Baby food is expensive. Trump's friends would make a killing if babies were no longer allowed to breastfeed. Makes sense.

Fuck this assclown and his bullshit.


that's right. this statement is 100% true.
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hockeybub89
07/08/18 1:49:47 PM
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Sayoria posted...
Fuck this assclown and his bullshit

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Webmaster4531
07/08/18 1:50:01 PM
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Devils advocate here. This video is aimed at hipster overprotective mothers but it makes some relevant points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_80bWlLJvg" data-time="

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Hexenherz
07/08/18 1:52:49 PM
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Trump doesn't want kids to breast feed because he's the biggest baby and a sex offender and wants to suckle all the bobs himself.
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Crepes
07/08/18 1:55:44 PM
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Webmaster4531 posted...
Devils advocate here. This video is aimed at hipster overprotective mothers but it makes some relevant points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_80bWlLJvg" data-time="


The sort of stuff the money makers love to muddy the waters enough to cause enough doubt to make their plans go unopposed.
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myzz7
07/08/18 2:03:47 PM
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Besides the Trump bashing, you guys know Obama and Bush and Clinton let corporations extort and pressure foreign nations to self-serving gains, right? This is hardly new or only characteristic of the Trump administration. I mean, what do you think we were doing in Iraq and Afghanistan for so long under Obama who got elected with the platform of "ending the wars"?
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ROBANN_88
07/08/18 2:04:45 PM
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Webmaster4531 posted...
Devils advocate here. This video is aimed at hipster overprotective mothers but it makes some relevant points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_80bWlLJvg" data-time="


"what about places that don't have clean water?"
"yeah, that can be bad, but if they just get clean water, it's great"

that was stupid. like "why don't poor people just get more money" kind of stupid
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Hexenherz
07/08/18 2:05:16 PM
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myzz7 posted...
Besides the Trump bashing, you guys know Obama and Bush and Clinton let corporations extort and pressure foreign nations to self-serving gains, right? This is hardly new or only characteristic of the Trump administration. I mean, what do you think we were doing in Iraq and Afghanistan for so long under Obama who got elected with the platform of "ending the wars"?

Over breast feeding?

And... do you think we could have just ... pulled out of Afghanistan and Iraq without repercussion and it would have been an easy thing?
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Webmaster4531
07/08/18 2:14:01 PM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
Webmaster4531 posted...
Devils advocate here. This video is aimed at hipster overprotective mothers but it makes some relevant points.


"what about places that don't have clean water?"
"yeah, that can be bad, but if they just get clean water, it's great"

that was stupid. like "why don't poor people just get more money" kind of stupid

aimed at hipster overprotective mothers

it makes some relevant points.

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Roshon
07/08/18 2:16:29 PM
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This is so fucking disgusting
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Jergensmeat
07/08/18 2:17:52 PM
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This cannot be a real news story, since only this media outlet seems to be promoting it.
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Bat178
07/08/18 2:18:57 PM
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Does this have anything to do with Julian Assange?
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07/08/18 2:27:13 PM
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hockeybub89
07/08/18 2:49:17 PM
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myzz7 posted...
Besides the Trump bashing, you guys know Obama and Bush and Clinton let corporations extort and pressure foreign nations to self-serving gains, right? This is hardly new or only characteristic of the Trump administration. I mean, what do you think we were doing in Iraq and Afghanistan for so long under Obama who got elected with the platform of "ending the wars"?

I thought Trump was not supposed to be lime other Presidents.
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Antifar
07/08/18 2:52:24 PM
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Re: Obama

the New York Times posted...
The intensity of the administrations opposition to the breast-feeding resolution stunned public health officials and foreign diplomats, who described it as a marked contrast to the Obama administration, which largely supported W.H.O.s longstanding policy of encouraging breast-feeding.

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E32005
07/08/18 3:00:14 PM
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i love how trumpeters only response is: "OBAWWMUH!"
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Jergensmeat
07/08/18 3:03:22 PM
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E32005 posted...
i love how trumpeters only response is: "OBAWWMUH!"

And yet you are feeding them more power lmfao.

But yeah I was thinking of the Nestle boycott when i read the topic too.
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Tsuyoi3
07/08/18 3:07:41 PM
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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.
This might also be part of it, possibly more important than the breastfeeding part.
I'm no fan of Trump, but it seems there might be a logical reason.
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A_Good_Boy
07/08/18 3:09:15 PM
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Tsuyoi3 posted...
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.
This might also be part of it, possibly more important than the breastfeeding part.
I'm no fan of Trump, but it seems there might be a logical reason.

We've gotta protect our childhood obesity and Texas' infant mortality rates.
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BWLurker
07/08/18 3:34:15 PM
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Tsuyoi3 posted...
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.
This might also be part of it, possibly more important than the breastfeeding part.
I'm no fan of Trump, but it seems there might be a logical reason.

You understand that America wanted to REMOVE the passage with those restrictions, right?
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TheCyborgNinja
07/08/18 3:37:07 PM
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Duncanwii posted...
megamanfreakXD posted...
Why the fuck does america not like breast feeding?

Its beneficial and its....free.

Exactly, it's free. Capitalists hate anything free (like America.)

This. If it can't be monetized it's "bad". Unchecked capitalism is as bad as communism. Neocons made America a forest fire and it needs to just burn itself out and be replaced.
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Solar_Crimson
07/08/18 4:34:00 PM
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E32005 posted...
the party of family values forcing people to use unnatural and non-traditional methods...

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Jergensmeat
07/08/18 4:34:56 PM
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TheCyborgNinja posted...
Duncanwii posted...
megamanfreakXD posted...
Why the fuck does america not like breast feeding?

Its beneficial and its....free.

Exactly, it's free. Capitalists hate anything free (like America.)

This. If it can't be monetized it's "bad". Unchecked capitalism is as bad as communism. Neocons made America a forest fire and it needs to just burn itself out and be replaced.

Solar_Crimson posted...
E32005 posted...
the party of family values forcing people to use unnatural and non-traditional methods...
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Tsuyoi3
07/08/18 5:57:56 PM
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BWLurker posted...
Tsuyoi3 posted...
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.
This might also be part of it, possibly more important than the breastfeeding part.
I'm no fan of Trump, but it seems there might be a logical reason.

You understand that America wanted to REMOVE the passage with those restrictions, right?

Oh, sorry, I must have misunderstood that then.
My bad!
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SpinKirby
07/08/18 6:00:14 PM
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myzz7 posted...
Metro2 posted...
If corporations could find a way to charge people to breathe air, they totally would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZUp2KF5ls" data-time="

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_z5wiVdgZM" data-time="

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creativerealms
07/08/18 6:01:40 PM
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What?
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