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“The infant feeding industry provides products, research grants, health information, gifts and sponsorship for conferences: all the activities believed to be essential for progress.…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Those who market artificial baby milk, bottles, teats and the essential cleaning materials benefit financially from keeping breastfeeding in check.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In the USA, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) accepts artificial-milk company money and promotion which defies the WHO Code.15”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When the baby food industry protests that they are not wholly responsible for the decline in breastfeeding they are right; the aid agencies as…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The baby food companies can maintain good profit margins as long as women hear what a marvellous thing breastfeeding is without getting the support…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Between 1983 and 1991, the AAP received contributions from infant formula companies which amounted to US$8.3 million, in addition to the income from journal…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“in a middle-class US suburb, medical costs for artificially fed babies were fifteen times that for breastfed babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

“The same country that has such weak regulations (and they are among the best in the world) of the artificial milk market has restrictive…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In less developed countries, the best form of promoting baby food formulas may well be the clinics which the company sponsors, at which nurses…

— Gabrielle Palmer

I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding.

— Arizona Muse

“Millions who have ‘tried’ to breastfeed gave up because general ignorance, hospital and health workers’ practices, all interwoven with cleverly targeted product promotion, sabotaged…

— Gabrielle Palmer