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US opposition to breast-feeding resolution stuns World Health officials

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  1. Petril
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    On Facebook, I've been seeing some very important discussion about the whole "Breast is Best" vs "Fed is Best" debate. But what is disgusting to me is Trump's apparent willingness to discourage...

    On Facebook, I've been seeing some very important discussion about the whole "Breast is Best" vs "Fed is Best" debate. But what is disgusting to me is Trump's apparent willingness to discourage parents from breastfeeding in order to protect the interests of baby-formula makers. Their measures against other countries are tantamount to extortion.

    If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.

    Yes, let's not shame parents who choose formula or means other than breastfeeding to nourish their child. Some parents can't produce enough or any milk, adopted children often need formula, sometimes breastfeeding is just too painful. But, breastfeeding is often free. We shouldn't be pushing expensive formula on parents if they don't already want/need it!

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  2. OriginalBinChicken
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    Similar to how the California Net Neutrality bill was destroyed (then brought back), this is another perfect example of why we need to outlaw lobbies and mandate transparency with any donation...

    Similar to how the California Net Neutrality bill was destroyed (then brought back), this is another perfect example of why we need to outlaw lobbies and mandate transparency with any donation made to political parties. Corporate money is the cause to many of the issues our country faces. I'm not saying that it will fix everything, but removing that aspect will create more honest politicians, and it will begin to surface many of the real issues we face instead of the spoon fed issues that we're fooled into believing are important.

    The only issue is.... we would need the whole system in its current state to remove this... which we all know won't happen.

    EDIT: mechanics

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      Algernon_Asimov
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      I'm not subscribed to ~health. I didn't check that group before posting this article here. I notice that ~health has only half the number of subscribers of ~news, so there are over 2,000 people in...

      I'm not subscribed to ~health. I didn't check that group before posting this article here.

      I notice that ~health has only half the number of subscribers of ~news, so there are over 2,000 people in ~news who wouldn't have seen this article in ~health.

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        1. Algernon_Asimov
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          Nor did I until you challenged me, and I did some quick research. :)

          Nor did I until you challenged me, and I did some quick research. :)

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      joelthelion
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      What is tildes takes on dupes? There currently doesn't seem to be anything in place to handle them.

      What is tildes takes on dupes? There currently doesn't seem to be anything in place to handle them.

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      1. Catt
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        There's been some brief talk about adding functionality to recognize directly linked posts, but it's not implemented. Some merge ability from mods were also discussed, also not yet implemented....

        There's been some brief talk about adding functionality to recognize directly linked posts, but it's not implemented. Some merge ability from mods were also discussed, also not yet implemented.

        I've noticed that in general, people just either delete their post or leave it but provide a link to the first posting.

        In your case, since this is in ~news which has a larger audience, I would say leave it.

        The first post can be found here.

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