Food industry Quote by 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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The baby food companies can maintain good profit margins as long as women hear what a marvellous thing breastfeeding is without getting the support…

— 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

“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

“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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Handing out a free sample is taking a stand against breastfeeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I know that stating these facts can be painful or even enraging to some women who have not breastfed their children, but the continued…

— 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