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The Milk of Human Kindness: Defending Breastfeeding from the Global Market and AIDS Industry [Paperback]

Solveig Francis (Author), Selma James (Author), Pheobe Jones Schellenberg (Author), Nina Lopez-Jones (Author)


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December 5, 2002
A path-breaking perspective on the true value of women's vital biological and caring work.

An economic balance sheet: how much is spent supporting breastfeeding and how much undermining it.

Over 100 facts on the economic value of breastfeeding, lives saved as well as savings to both individuals and countries in healthcare, birth control costs and formula costs; the unique qualities of breast milk compared to those of any formula; and its environmental friendliness.

The work of breastfeeding, the skills it requires, the time and energy it takes -- and saves.

A do-it-yourself guide to measuring the work of breastfeeding (and all unwaged work), and economically valuing it.

An account of how much money and resources the formula industry invests in influencing governments, the media, the medical profession and NGOs to undermine breastfeeding, and how the privatization of the UN has benefited industry at the expense of mothers and babies. Another view of HIV and breastfeeding: breast is always best. What the AIDS "experts" don't tell us.

An exposé of how the pharmaceutical industry (often one with the formula industry) that markets drugs for HIV/AIDS, has bought control over researchers, UN officials, policy makers, health professionals and NGOs, and represents the latest attack on breastfeeding.

Information about the movement to defend breastfeeding and women's resistance to HIV/AIDS terrorism, South and North, integral to the movement against globalisation.

Reports from the successful campaign to defend mothers' rights to paid nursing breaks during the 1999 and 2000 ILO review of its Maternity Protection Convention.

The right to breastfeed, an Indigenous woman's perspective from Peru.

A list of 22 demands for action to promote breastfeeding and first of all to protect and support the breastfeeding mother.


Editorial Reviews

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Great book! We believe in the measuring and economically valuing of breastfeeding and all other unwaged work of women. -- Gloria Okemuo, Coordinator, Breastfeeding Awareness Network, Nigeria

Outlines...how breastfeeding is being marginalized on a global scale. Mothers and others will find inspiration to carry on. -- Pamela Morrison, IBCLC in

Splendid book. -- Sheila Kitzinger, natural childbirth author

This book will change your life... Describes the implications, both financial and health, of formula feeding. -- Penelope Samuel, in Summer 2003 ISSUE 97

Wonderful. Full of what the world needs to know and beautiful that you didn't give in to the censors. -- Helen Lobato, Community Radio, Melbourne, Australia

From the Publisher

Breastfeeding, which protects the lives and health of infants and lays the basis for the health of the whole population, seems to be increasing again. But the attack against it has intensified. HIV/AIDS is the latest excuse for promoting breast milk substitutes. UNICEF, once the leading advocate of "breast is best" has now begun to promote formula, the first junk food, and is making deals with MacDonald's and Coca-Cola, the follow-on junk foods. This book also introduces us to the counter-attack, the new movement against "the baby killers" and the action urgently needed to protect new life.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 220 pages
  • Publisher: Crossroads Books (December 5, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0954437209
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954437206
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,255,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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