The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business

by Gabrielle Palmer

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As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nationand thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time. Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use of bottles, artificial milks and other risky products. In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer describes how big business uses subtle techniques to pressure parents to use alternatives to show more breastmilk. The infant feeding product companies' thirst for profit systematically undermines mothers' confidence in their ability to breastfeed their babies. An essential and inspirational eye-opener, The Politics of Breastfeeding challenges our complacency about how we feed our children and radically reappraises a subject which concerns not only mothers, but everyone: man or woman, parent or childless, old or young. show less

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cjwatt 6 reviews

The author was preaching to the converted when I read this book, but the great thing about reading it is that it provides buckets of information to use to help convert the ambivalent. I'm not intending to preach, but a bit of gentle guiding has something to be said for it.

Nov 27, 2015

LLLOFCOLUMBIA 55 reviews

Fully explores the political, economic, and social implications of bottle feeding versus breastfeeding

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