There is no such thing as big business with a soul. It just doesn't happen that way anymore. Filipino families, as well as any other sub-industrialized "second world" (new term from Oxfam) country ... have enough money to buy such things, and not enough to sue the originating companies. Then again, the US does have enough money to sue and big business still dumped poison food on us.
The disparity between India and other regional, high population countries and the US, Europe and wealthy Asia is mind-numbing. And it seems to have become a psychopathic blood sport for the rich to step on the poor.
I remember a time when the owner of my grandfather's carpentry shop would stop by every month and inquire of all the workers how their families were. He'd personally hand them their Christmas gifts, too. Then again, that was a time when middle class people could afford to own carpentry shops. Now that sort of business would be owned by a faceless collective, purchasing bulk materials at a discount, polluting the local environment, and making the product as cheaply as possible.
Those who appear most susceptible to this advertising are the poor, who are also the most likely to be using contaminated water to make up the feed. Some spend as much as one third of their household income on formula.
AFAICS, it's the same argument as smoking in the '60s and '70s. The poor are less likely to be literate and therefore unable to obtain balanced information about such things, are more likely to be suckered by aggressive advertising campaigns and less likely to say 'no' when the sales rep knocks at the door bearing freebies.
Sometimes it seems that nobody can get it right. In the philippines the government can't get women to breastfeed (and this does not need to cost more money in the long run, you simply tell doctors and nurses the facts while they're in training anyway), while in the Netherlands the government tries to force women to breastfeed. Recently there was an article in the paper about women who didn't produce enough milk or not the right kind (not nutritious enough) and when they tried to get information from their doctors about formula milk, they were pretty much treated like criminals for not breastfeeding their babies like a "proper" mom. They certainly didn't get any kind of information about formula milk from them. Ideology can be worse than big business.
IF their breast milk wasn't nutritious enough, you can't help wondering if they were eating a proper diet.
After all, if poor-quality breast milk was an hereditary trait, we've have eliminated it out of the gene pool pretty quickly.
Not producing enough milk is usually caused by not feeding on demand. If you leave long gaps between feeds (as used to be the case when the 'four-hour interval' myth prevailed) then milk production falls off.
Better advice is the answer there.
The minority with a genuine problem will be very small indeed - though they will need an alternative method of feeding.
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The disparity between India and other regional, high population countries and the US, Europe and wealthy Asia is mind-numbing. And it seems to have become a psychopathic blood sport for the rich to step on the poor.
I remember a time when the owner of my grandfather's carpentry shop would stop by every month and inquire of all the workers how their families were. He'd personally hand them their Christmas gifts, too. Then again, that was a time when middle class people could afford to own carpentry shops. Now that sort of business would be owned by a faceless collective, purchasing bulk materials at a discount, polluting the local environment, and making the product as cheaply as possible.
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AFAICS, it's the same argument as smoking in the '60s and '70s. The poor are less likely to be literate and therefore unable to obtain balanced information about such things, are more likely to be suckered by aggressive advertising campaigns and less likely to say 'no' when the sales rep knocks at the door bearing freebies.
Of course i could be wrong.
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After all, if poor-quality breast milk was an hereditary trait, we've have eliminated it out of the gene pool pretty quickly.
Not producing enough milk is usually caused by not feeding on demand. If you leave long gaps between feeds (as used to be the case when the 'four-hour interval' myth prevailed) then milk production falls off.
Better advice is the answer there.
The minority with a genuine problem will be very small indeed - though they will need an alternative method of feeding.