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A couple of readers (wow, I have readers!) have left edifying links in their comments but I just discovered that links don't work very well in the comments box. So here they are again.

Nash gave us a lead to a piece on the whole breastfeeding vs. formula milk corporate sham.

Johnb gave us a lead to a web-page dedicated to the memory of the Baguio Killer Earthquake, may it forever be the only one.

Thank you!

Pahabol! Another piece on the formula milk issue, thanks to Mayumi.
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Mayumi Masaya said…
eto pa, from the IHT

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/17/news/phils.php
22 July 2007 at 17:12
The Nashman said…
Don't you just like the quote from the lawyer for the milk formulas?

"This is not a battle between breastfeeding and formula," said Felicitas Aquino-Arroyo, a lawyer for the Pharmaceutical and Health Care Association of the Philippines, the industry group that filed the suit, in an interview in June. "This is about the arrogance of the Department of Health." She called the assertion that formula was a factor in the high rate of infant mortality in the Philippines a "malicious insinuation."

Wow, maybe she is a Promil baby too!
23 July 2007 at 08:10
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