“Osservatorju ghall-Ghixien Xieraq” sounds like a voyeurs’ club…

Well said, Daphne. Thank you!

Hear, hear Ms DCG.

The breast-is-best myth is misogynist propaganda aimed at keeping women chained to the kitchen sink and away from the boardroom. If men had to breast-feed, bottle-feeding would have been elevated to human-right status in the Bill of Human Rights aeons ago.

Silvio, you always come up with something near to logical, but there is always something even more logical which can be done. Try harder.

I too was fed Cow and Gate as a 60s baby. At 50, I am very healthy, strong and rarely get sick.

It doesn’t make a difference whether one opts for breast milk or formula.

I breast-fed my son for a long time. I did this out of choice. It was cheap and conveniently always available. However, this did not have any effect on his health and growth. Breast milk does not reduce the risk of allergies, diabetes etc.

My son suffers from all the allergies on this earth, from asthma, hay fever and eczema, and has done so since the age of eight months. He is of average weight and height and gets sick like any other child.

Therefore breast feeding or not, it’s just a matter of choice and nothing else.

Kudos, as practical an answer as ever.

Men are probably more vociferous about the benefits of breast feeding (and, when it comes to that, the ills of abortion) than women.

I had never heard of some of these organisations. Osservatorju għall-Għixien Xieraq. What’s that? Ċentru għall-Ħelsien mill-Vizzji? Sounds like the Salvation Army without the uniforms.

“The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.” (Machiavelli)

Are you suggesting that there is no benefit to breast feeding? If so, that’s categorically wrong. Wherever possible breast feeding should be preferred to formula. I could point you to the mountain of evidence, but perhaps you should listen to the breast feeding drive.

[Daphne – The mountain of evidence is skewed. There are no control mechanisms because you cannot rear the same baby twice, once on breast-milk and once on formula, so you can’t possibly have any idea of the difference it would have made to the individual. The ‘breast-feeding drive’ is Stalinist propaganda and yet another attempt at controlling women through one of the few means now possible. Take me, for instance (so as not to mention others). I was a Cow & Gate baby: big (in terms of height and long limbs, certainly not fat), strong and glowing. I was the tallest child in the classroom from the age of 4 to the age of 15, when I left. I was in the top percentile in terms of grades. I rarely got ill and still rarely do. Even when I weighed 55 kilos and was skinny-skinny, I had the strength of an ox and still do. Are you telling me that if I had been breast-fed for two years I would have been six feet tall, with the physical strength of Hercules and now working for NASA? I don’t think so. Breast-feeding really doesn’t make a difference when you live in the first world. And formula milk is probably even better now than it was in 1964/1965.]