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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Trump's Milk Of Inhumane Unkindness

Trump and his supporters care more about milking the poor than they do about feeding babies born to poor women in developing countries. That's why they want to force them to drink Milk that comes from these boobs.


Mortality from Nestlé’s Marketing of Infant Formula in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Jesse Anttila-Hughes1
Lia C.H. Fernald2
Paul J. Gertler3
Patrick Krauss4
Bruce Wydick5
March 12, 2018
Abstract. Intensive and potentially unethical marketing of infant formula is believed to be responsible for millions of infant deaths in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet to date there have been no rigorous analyses that quantify these effects. To estimate the impact of infant formula on infant mortality, we pair country-specific data from the annual corporate reports of Nestlé, the largest producer of infant formula, with a sample of 2.48 million births in 46 LMICs from 1970-2011. Our key finding is that the introduction of infant formula increased infant mortality by 9.4 per 1000 births, 95%CI [3.6, 15.6] among mothers without access to clean water, suggesting that unclean water acted as a vector for the transmission of water-borne pathogens to infants. We estimate that the introduction of Nestlé infant formula resulted in approximately 66,000 infant deaths in 1981 at the peak of the infant formula controversy among mothers without clean water access in LMICs.

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

How to Celebrate Independence in 2018

Independence came with the responsibility to live up to and preserve the ideals upon which our nation was founded.

This is not how to celebrate independence.


This is!

Resist the GOP's fascist political agenda!