Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Messages about the ‘benefits’ of breastfeeding imply that artificial feeding is normal and safe, and that breastfeeding is a bonus.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial feeding is risky. This basic fact upsets people who feel insulted if they or their mothers did not breastfeed but most women do…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

— Hanna Rosin

“6. Labels should be in an appropriate language and have no words or pictures idealising artificial feeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When researchers looked at all the possible means of preventing infant and young child death they found that improving breastfeeding practices could prevent more…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through reducing the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial feeding requires medical services to be nearby. In much of the world, access to medical care is scarce and services overstretched.”

— 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 many societies any non-human milk donation was interpreted as a health message to replace breastfeeding, an idea often endorsed by the resident foreigners’…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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