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Obesity is an illness, says government
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writes The WIC program offered vouchers specifically for formula for people who were bottle-feeding infants. (WIC stands for Women Infant Children). They offer food vouchers with specified lists of foods you can buy with them. I've heard they offered vouchers for an extra gallon of milk or something for women who were breast-feeding, but the $ amounts were nowhere near equivalent and it just showed up as, "If I bottle feed they'll pay for it but I get nothing otherwise." It's the same in Europe, where there's normally a 'milk allowance'; though you can now apparently use it to buy milk for the family if you are breastfeeding. But it supported the rise of bottle-feeding, which is now an ineradicable tradition among poorer women, along with junk food and fast food. Come to think of it, formula IS fast food and is part of the fast food mentality. -- Jane Lumley |
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