Current Events > Which corporations is the Trump administration doing the bidding of today?

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Well, a lot, but this topic is specifically about the ones who make baby formula

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

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 mothers 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.
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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.

During the deliberations, some American delegates even suggested the United States might cut its contribution the W.H.O., several negotiators said. Washington is the single largest contributor to the health organization, providing $845 million, or roughly 15 percent of its budget, last year.

The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration siding with corporate interests on numerous public health and environmental issues.

In talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Americans have been pushing for language that would limit the ability of Canada, Mexico and the United States to put warning labels on junk food and sugary beverages, according to a draft of the proposal reviewed by The New York Times.

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Hail corporations! HAIL TRUMP!!!

Live 10,000 years!!!
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Breaking News: Trump signs deal with Shinra Inc. that will allow them to build 50 new Mako Reactors by 2025
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He is doing damage to the US on the world stage that won't be undone for years and years after he's gone.

Antifar posted...

Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.

this is one of the main reasons our country is shit

fuck this for profit "democracy"
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^I really like that phrase

for-profit democracy
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teepan95 posted...

^I really like that phrase

for-profit democracy

it what we have, honestly. trump is hardly the first and won't be the last but fuck him for making it worse.

wolf in douchebag's clothing.
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Remember when Nestle tricked mothers in third-world countries into thinking formula was best for them and the babies and it basically fucked an entire generation and killed hundreds of thousands if not millions of kids?
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Bio1590 posted...

Remember when Nestle tricked mothers in third-world countries into thinking formula was best for them and the babies and it basically fucked an entire generation and killed hundreds of thousands if not millions of kids?

remember when the ceo of nestle said "water is not a basic human right"?
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