Food supply Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“The development of the infant food industry has depended on the repeated testing of unproven products on unsuspecting consumers without their informed consent.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Babies can translate the nutrient needs of their tiny bodies into their suckling behaviours, but medical rules based on mistaken theories have sabotaged their…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Full-term healthy babies are extremely adept at organising their meals to suit themselves and their mothers’ bodies – if only other people will let…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“It makes good biological sense for this “machinery” always to be on because babies can’t possibly know what will be important in life, so…

— Norman Doidge

“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

“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they were not…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“We can't force a child to learn but we can feed his hunger.”

— Ted Agon

“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Spoon Feeding is only good for children not for adults. Let them think for themselves and don't baby them. They are just plain lazy.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.

— Magda Gerber