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🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are out there in the world. |
0:12.8 | Guess what? |
0:13.8 | You're now standing on the high wire. |
0:16.9 | There is a lot going on in the world, but is America about to go to war over breastfeeding? |
0:24.8 | I saw a headline that absolutely to me is proves everything that's wrong with America |
0:31.1 | right now and here it is. |
0:33.2 | Opposition to breastfeeding resolution by US stuns world health officials. |
0:39.3 | This was New York Times reporting on this apparently Ecuador and a bunch of UN nations all |
0:44.6 | came together to discuss a resolution simply to say can we back off the pushing of formula |
0:51.0 | around the world especially in third world nations where we know children will be healthy |
0:55.6 | if they simply breastfeed. |
0:56.8 | We want to promote breastfeeding again as a way to have our children be healthy around |
1:02.8 | the world. |
1:03.8 | You would think it would be a little thing to sign up on. |
1:05.8 | Yeah, great. |
1:06.8 | We're all agree with that because in fact a 2016 study in the Lansett found that universal |
1:12.1 | breastfeeding would prevent 800,000 child deaths across the globe and save over 300 billion |
1:20.4 | dollars if people would just get back to breastfeeding. |
1:24.0 | Now we all know we really got off track for a while when you know there were books from |
1:29.2 | people that were writing about healthy children saying you're better off giving your child |
1:34.0 | formula. |
1:35.0 | This is really like back in the late 60s, 70s. |
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