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More options May 17 2000, 5:00 pm

Newsgroups: alt.parenting.solutions, alt.support.breastfeeding, misc.kids.breastfeeding

From: "image" <imaginat...@spamno.com>

Date: 2000/05/17

Subject: Re: Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public?

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"Naomi Lynne Pardue" <npar...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:8f7e2o$dc0$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu...

> In misc.kids.breastfeeding linda-renee
<lindarenee*ilovekellyan...@5catsmindspring.com> wrote:
> > Naomi Lynne Pardue <npar...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message

> >> In misc.kids.breastfeeding linda-renee
> > <lindarenee*ilovekellyan...@5catsmindspring.com> wrote:

> >> > I'm terribly curious how my having used formula was a burden on any
> > taxpayer
> >> > or any health provider. My best friend breast fed for years and her
> > kids
> >> > are sick about ten times as often as mine, no exaggeration.

> >> Is it SOOO hard to grasp the difference between individual anecdotes
and
> >> statistical data?

> > Of course not. Nevertheless, I'm still waiting to find out how my using
> > formula burdened the tax system and/or the health care system.

> Your child has really NEVER been sick in his/her entire life? You are
> certain that your child will never BE sick in his/her entire life?

I am not following your bf child is never sick?

> > I am confounded that you *continue* to compare the food that kept my
baby
> > alive and healthy to a sickening, disgusting, murderous habit like
smoking.
> > There is no basis for comparison whatsoever. Smoking destroys quality
of
> > life and kills, period. Formula is a *food* that provides nutrition to
> > millions of babies. Perhaps it's not the ambrosia you think mother's
milk
> > is. But it's food, and kids live and thrive on it.

> Formula also destroys quality of life. Formula also kills. There are
> times when it is necessary (as starvation would destroy quality of life
> or kill with even more certainty), but it is still a product that kills
> people.

You shouldn't have to stretch the truth!
Formula does not kill! Are you actually hearing (or seeing) what you have
said, it makes no sense.

> > I can't see attempting rational discussion with someone who will stretch
> > reality so far.....

> And I can't see attempting rational discussion with someone who can't
> understand the concept of 'analogy.'

You have to realize the smoking and formula are not "analgous". It is just
stupid to consider it as such.

> Naomi

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