OT Happy New Year, everyone. I wasn't looking for politics,

[micky]

Happy New Year, everyone.

I wasn't looking for politics, not at all, but I watched the ball drop in Times Square and a few minutes later they inaugurated the new mayor, Eric Adams, in Times Square. (It was going to be indoors tomorrow but Omicron put the kibosh on that. ) So I thought I'd look him up in wikip and this part amazed me:

"In July 2018, Adams publicly denounced President Trump's efforts to stop Ecuador from passing a U.N. resolution stating that breastfeeding is the most beneficial way of feeding a child.[69]"

Doesn't everyone except maybe those who make baby formula agree breastfeeding is better for babies? What could stumpie have had against this resolution?

This is just one more stupid, obnoxious thing I didn't even hear about, because there were so many others.

Here's the footnote:

"Last week, the United States turned to threats at the World Health Assembly as Ecuador was expected to introduce a breastfeeding resolution. However, the U.S. warned that if the country went through with introducing the measure, it would cut military aid and implement punitive trade measures, according to the New York Times.

The resolution holds that breastfeeding is the healthiest option for young children, and pushes countries to limit the spread of inaccurate information about breast milk substitutes. However, just yesterday, President Donald Trump came out in support of the measure, claiming the threats were never made and the country is a strong advocate of the right of women to feed their children breast milk. "

Who are going to believe, haha? ***

The rest of the article is mostly political speechifying, fair but self-promotion.

Here is some more about the topic I looked for and found:

*** An article from July 8, 2018 in the NYT that says the same thing, that trump opposed it: An article 2 days later from NPR that says he denied it. That link has no paywall. Because it's "public". resolution "was pretty straightforward, it wasn't a real policy reach," Elizabeth Zehner, the director for Helen Keller International's Assessment & Research on Child Feeding project, told NPR in an interview. She attended the meeting and said the resolution "was really just reaffirming policies that are already in place and calling on countries to implement them."

Ecuador was the country that initially planned to introduce the resolution ? until it suddenly backed out. "It was supposed to go to the floor, and then Ecuador pulled it and it was very confusing," said Zehner, adding that other countries were approached about putting it forward but refused, apparently because they were scared.

According to the Times, "American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to 'protect, promote and support breast-feeding' and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children."

A controversial passage apparently sought to strengthen enforcement and monitoring of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, which was originally adopted in 1981. Organizations such as Save the Children say that some major companies that produce these products regularly flout this international code. Many advocates for breastfeeding think that some companies promote certain products in a misleading way that can harm young kids.

Aha, so there we go. This has been going on since the 70's, when Nestles (search for Nestles boycott) would dress up women in nurse uniforms and have them give free samples to women, even in poor countries like in Africa. Enough free forumula for women until their own milk dried up, and then they had to pay. And in much of the world, anything from the west, from western science, was regarded as great, because western doctors etc. had saved so many lives with vaccines and modern medicine. So they believe them that so-called formula was better than breast milk. Some places there was no safe water. Adults could drink it because they'd built up immunity but babies would get sick and sometimes die. Many people were poor enough that when they couldn't afford a full supply, they would dilute the formula, sort of on the idea that it was magically good, and some babies died of malnutrition or maybe it was called starvation.

for many more reasons. And they are still at it, it seems. And trump was trying to help them it seems. I wonder if they paid him.

[Dean Hoffman]

Cut rest. Healthy New Year to all. ?Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.? ? John Lubbock, The Use Of Life From:

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Same here. Micky should have truncated his post to the first line. It was down hill after that.

In spite of this, I wish all a Happy New Year.