Trump's AmeriKKKa comes out against Mom, is apple pie next?

[Scooter]

U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials

A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.

Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.

Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.

American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.

When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.

The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.

The showdown over the issue was recounted by more than a dozen participants from several countries, many of whom requested anonymity because they feared retaliation from the United States.

Health advocates scrambled to find another sponsor for the resolution, but at least a dozen countries, most of them poor nations in Africa and Latin America, backed off, citing fears of retaliation, according to officials from Uruguay, Mexico and the United States.

“We were astonished, appalled and also saddened,” said Patti Rundall, the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, who has attended meetings of the assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, since the late 1980s.

“What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the world hostage and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on the best way to protect infant and young child health,” she said.

In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.

I can see the next protest - at Trump's next speech hundreds of mothers stand up, pull out a breast and start feeding their babies. Will be difficult for him to resort to his usual tactics of calling on goon squads in the audience to beat the crap out of them.

[Guinevere]

Such grifters and con artists - the $$$ is King - so long as it finds its way into the hands of Korporate ameriKKKa.

Trump and wes’ America.

[Lord Jim]

Ecuadorians, facing having important military aid from the US rescinded on top of harsh sanctions on critical goods, backed down. But, the US did not threaten Russia in the same manner.

[Burning Petard]

The new normal. POTUS is so amazingly ignorant and his minions just act from that solid position--buttressed by flat earth, creation science, and a firm confidence that the elitists experts are always wrong.

PS, the White House ahas already announced that the meeting with POTUS and Putin will include a ftf meeting with no other Americans present to witness what is said.

snailgate.

[wesw]

the story sounds incomplete and deceptive to me.

also coordinated in its reporting, as many stories seem these days...

I wouldn t be surprised if it turned out to be a distortion of the truth, as much coordinated reporting turns out to be, these days.

[Scooter]

Not even I am stupid enough to try to defend opposing breastfeeding, so the only defense remaining is to deny that it ever happened.

Translation from wesspeak

[Scooter]

Yet more wesspeak:

"coordinated reporting" = the version of events corroborated by multiple sources and disputed by no one

[Big RR]

Wes--Feel free to post any evidence of the distortion that you have or uncover. Besides Trump's tap dance (and we all know how reliable his tweets are--even he contradicts them), I haven't seen anything even remotely refuting this.

[RayThom]

Let's not forget Drumpf's anti-#metoo rant from which wesw got his earlier "lizzie warren" material.

This link is quite humorous.

Unhinged Trump Holds Rally in Montana, Attacks #MeToo Movement in Rant About Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Heritage
https://www.theroot.com/unhinged-trump- ... 1827391834