<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>What is our country degenerating to ? ! ? !</div><div><br></div><div>“ . . . <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.”</span></div><div><br></div>Courtesy of the <i>New York Times</i> at:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>———————————————</div><div><br></div><div><div><h1 class="css-ifnb0o ejekc6u0" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 2rem; font-style: italic; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 2.25rem; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); position: relative; width: 600px; max-width: 600px;"><span class="balancedHeadline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; max-width: 554.79296875px;">U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials</span></h1></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>———————————————<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>