Breastfeeding Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“The AAP, an organisation supposedly concerned with child health, considered quality control an extravagance, whilst millions of dollars were, and are, spent by the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Many mothers were convinced that artificial milk was a medicine, especially as it was endorsed and distributed through healthcare channels.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.”

— 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

“The Code does not restrict the sale and availability of breastmilk substitutes. It bans all advertising, but endorses the provision of scientific and factual…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The American Academy of Pediatrics officially supports breastfeeding, but receives about half a million dollars from Ross, manufacturers of Similac infant formula.”

— Ben Goldacre

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“12. Manufacturers and distributors should comply with the Code (and all subsequent WHA Resolutions on infant feeding) independently of any government action to implement it.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do not like…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“What the milk depots established was the link between artificial milk distribution and the health centres which persists to this day, the world over.28”

— Gabrielle Palmer