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Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the mmmmmmmm-lunch! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:57PM (#392783)

    Here's your chance to link to how someone has gotten a fish gene into a tomato using cross-pollination.
    ...or anything remotely similar.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 25 2016, @01:04AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday August 25 2016, @01:04AM (#392838) Homepage Journal

    A gene is a gene is a gene. Base pairs don't know from species, they determine it.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday August 25 2016, @07:03AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday August 25 2016, @07:03AM (#392898) Journal

    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.