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U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
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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.
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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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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html
This is an enlightening read.
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U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Jul 2018
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demigoddess
(6,640 posts)2. what is best for babies is not important to our government.
I'm surprised they don't hand out cigarettes to kids on the street.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)3. Unbelievable.
I don't have words.
Rebl2
(13,485 posts)4. Republicans
only care about kids when they are in the womb. They could care less about them after they are born.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)5. "These women should have the choice and access to alternatives..."
/facepalm
Uncle Joe
(58,342 posts)6. The message Trump sends here aside from leave no corporation behind at the expense of children
is that if Putin is happy he's happy.
Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)7. Absolutely! What an odd relationship between their anti-abortion stance
and this economic strong-arm against Ecuador.
US wingers demand that women both have children they can't afford to raise, and buy them inferior food products they also can't afford, so the investor class can make higher profits from them.
Unbelievable. This is even more evil than we have grown accustomed to seeing.
Uncle Joe
(58,342 posts)8. It's truly sick even for Putin's puppy.