Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.”

— 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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45”

— 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

“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A common media image of breastfeeding has been of a hungry mother in a famine rather than of the millions of ordinary women who…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It is difficult to insist on breastfeeding because nurses and physicians are eager to have the infant show the greatest possible gain.”12”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In spite of continual railing against those unworthy mothers who did not suckle their babies, there was little interest or research into the causes…

— Gabrielle Palmer

The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet…

— Sharon Gannon