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In 2013, 81.1 percent of U.S. mothers said they started out breast-feeding their baby. That's up from 75 percent in 2008, and 70 percent in 2000, according to the CDC.
[...] 52 percent of U.S. mothers said they were still breast-feeding their infants when the babies were 6 months old, and 30 percent said they were still breast-feeding when the babies reached 1 year.
How should society handle breastfeeding in public and the workplace? Should there be any restrictions on the age of the child?
Breastfeeding has obvious benefits for a child's development, but breast milk is also a fluid of the body that can carry disease.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-still-breastfeeds-daughter-aged-4881835
http://www.livescience.com/55846-breast-feeding-mothers-united-states.html
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:39PM
History is just full of examples of man boldly proclaiming he has outdone nature for glory or profit, only to come running back with tail between legs.
Like this [businessinsider.com]?
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @08:35PM
Right, monoculture has never gone wrong, especially not when the last monocultured banana became extinct! And it's happening again. [naturalnews.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:31PM
Man, I really dislike that site.
They'll go out of their way to be dishonest if it pushes their big-business-friendly agenda.
I grabbed a stripped Google Cache [googleusercontent.com] of their stupid page just to avoid giving their shitty site a pagehit.
The title of the article is "Foods before genetic modification: Here's what your food would look like if it weren't genetically modified over millennia"
...then those fuckwits go and give an example of doing it the non-GMO way.
That's ANOTHER example of doing it the non-GMO way, fuckwits.
FUCKWITS.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:43PM
Do please explain the difference between GMO and selective breeding, besides one using a technique thousands of times faster.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:57PM
Here's your chance to link to how someone has gotten a fish gene into a tomato using cross-pollination.
...or anything remotely similar.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 25 2016, @01:04AM
A gene is a gene is a gene. Base pairs don't know from species, they determine it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday August 25 2016, @07:03AM
When genes are exchanged between species in nature, it's called "horizontal gene transfer." Wikipedia lists some examples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer#Eukaryotes [wikipedia.org]
The "vectors" by which genes are transferred in genetic engineering exist in nature, where they do the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_%28molecular_biology%29 [wikipedia.org]
Of course, those aren't reasons to be incautious when using such techniques.