‘Natural’ Breastfeeding Condemned as ‘Ethically Problematic’

January 15th, 2024

Public health aims… Mmm hmm.

Via: Armageddon Prose:

“Medical and public health organizations recommend that mothers exclusively breastfeed for at least 6 months. This recommendation is based on evidence of health benefits for mothers and babies, as well as developmental benefits for babies. A spate of recent work challenges the extent of these benefits, and ethical criticism of breastfeeding promotion as stigmatizing is also growing. Building on this critical work, we are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding as the “natural” way to feed infants. This messaging plays into a powerful perspective that ‘natural’ approaches to health are better, a view examined in a recent report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Promoting breastfeeding as ‘natural’ may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that ‘natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier. This may ultimately challenge public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination.”

5 Responses to “‘Natural’ Breastfeeding Condemned as ‘Ethically Problematic’”

  1. Snowman says:

    Another formerly respected medical association bites the dust.

  2. Dennis says:

    Compromised, clot-addled quislings whose stultified selves would break out in a sweat if “natural” were reworded “backed by 100 million years of intelligent evolution.”

    Nuffield Council? Funded by Wellcome while under Proximal Origin-pushing WHO scientist & Blackrock-connected vax fan, Jeremy Farrar: https://brownstone.org/articles/sinister-future-planned-by-sir-jeremy-farrar/

    Intelligent Evolution: See ‘Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution’, https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/316

  3. Snowman says:

    Dennis — well said!

  4. NH says:

    Yes–very nice comment Dennis, on one of the most evil paragraphs I’ve ever read.

  5. Dennis says:

    I got mad and started channeling Captain Haddock.

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