Obesity is an illness, says government

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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.

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Jane Lumley