Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.”

— Frank Oski

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“9. All information on artificial feeding, including labels, should explain the benefits of breastfeeding and warn of the costs and hazards associated with artificial feeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of…

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“8. Governments should ensure that objective and consistent information is provided on infant and young child feeding.”

— 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

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Food was a responsibility, a ward she was determined to go by, ... She'd force herself through to the last forkful even to the…

— Lionel Shriver