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NY Times (primary source), Vox, Gizdomo and some others report over a resolution to encourage breast-feeding, which was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
Vox:
[...] American officials surprised international delegates at the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly in May when they opposed a widely popular resolution to promote breastfeeding, according to a Sunday report by Andrew Jacobs for the New York Times. Specifically, they pushed to remove language asking governments to "protect, promote, and support breast-feeding." They also took issue with a passage that called for policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that may harm children.
It appears that the administration of President Donald Trump sided with corporate interests — the $70 billion infant formula industry — over the health and well-being of kids around the globe. The baby food industry is primarily based in the US and Europe.
The Americans were so ardent in their opposition that they made serious threats to Ecuadorian delegates, who were going to introduce the resolution. According to the Times, the Americans said if Ecuador didn't drop the proposal, "Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid."
The resolution ultimately made its way through, as a result of Russian intervention. "We feel that it is wrong when a big country tries to push around some very small countries, especially on an issue that is really important for the rest of the world," a Russian delegate told the Times. The US did not make the same threats to Russia as it had to Ecuador, and the resolution was passed mostly in its original form.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @02:29AM (6 children)
The OP nailed it.
Your argument is worthless. Why isn't the world protecting, promoting, and supporting wiping your ass after you shit?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 10 2018, @02:50AM (4 children)
Lemme guess. Because, unlike breastfeeding, no corporation objected yet to ass wiping, and neither the US government? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @02:59AM (2 children)
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bidets-are-healthier-than-toilet-paper-so-why-111571549767.html [yahoo.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:26AM (1 child)
From the linked
Neither of those are corporation or US govt.
Besides, they don't say "let your ass dirty after using your toilet", but "washing seems to be better then wiping, but one can have too much of this better thing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:52AM
You are being "culturally prepared" as we speak. You think yahoo news brings up bidets out of nowhere?
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/technology/personaltech/electronic-bidet-toilet-seat-is-the-luxury-you-wont-want-to-live-without.html [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday July 11 2018, @03:03AM
Yes they did. The biggest corporation - church - for example. There are countless examples. Say the fate of Hawaii population. Natives would shit into the ocean and wash their buts. Then missionaries came and forced locals to dig holes and shit in there without washing their asses. Soon, all locals died. When you see nice nuns remember that.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by tfried on Tuesday July 10 2018, @06:48AM
You are right in a way. Breast-feeding is the obvious choice, and typically the only viable one in developing countries. A priori, you do not need anybody to tell you that.
However, what you need even less is (commercially) interested parties scaring young mothers away from breastfeeding, instead encouraging them to rely on commercial products, which they won't be able to afford, which they won't necessarily realize until it is too late (no more breast milk, baby no longer accepting breast).
So - what they'd really need to do is pass a resolution to ban promotion of formula. But that would have some real free speech issues, so, instead, they say it's important to restore a healthy balance to the discussion. As there is no money to be earned from mothers breastfeeding (except long term and on the societal level), it makes sense to turn to governments to promote that side.
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BTW, on the topic of sanitation:
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/human_right_to_water.shtml [un.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Toilet_Day [wikipedia.org]