Breast-feeding was part of the Labour government’s import substitution policy

Published: July 10, 2012 at 2:42pm

I know it's bloody boring, darling, but think of all the money that's not leaving Malta to pay for powdered milk. The kaxxa ta' Malta will overflow, even if nothing else does here.

The subject of Golden Years Marie Louise Coleiro this morning, and the memories it triggered among many of you, caused me to remember an often-overlooked (because it involves women) aspect of that tragi-comic era.

The Labour governments of the 1970s and 1980s promoted breast-feeding among new mothers not for the infant’s health – who cared about that? – but as part of their import substitution policy.




6 Comments Comment

  1. edgar says:
    July 10, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    The ”Ahleb Guz” saying comes to mind.

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  2. El Pibe says:
    July 10, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    Well it backfired on them, didn’t it. Breastfeeding is linked with a higher IQ and the younger generation then voted them out of office.

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  3. John B says:
    July 10, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    For whatever reason they chose to promote breast-feeding time has shown they were right in doing so. It’s a bit a weak point you’re pushing here.


    [Daphne – I don’t think you got the point. It wasn’t about breast-feeding (yawn) but about the extreme to which import substitution policy was taken.]

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