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They’re at it again. Or, I guess they’ve never stopped: I just haven’t had contact with their nefarious ways for a while. I’m talking about the corporations that manufacture and market infant formula, and the subtle methods they use to undermine a new mother’s decision to breast-feed her baby. It is, after all, in their interest that as few women as possible breast-feed successfully or for any length of time: Every time a woman sits down and nurses her baby with her own, homegrown breast milk, the formula hawkers are losing money. I’ve got my Irish up because of the unsolicited literature and free samples that formula companies have been sending my sister, who will birth her first child any day now. Upon casual reading, the literature seems to support breast-feeding wholeheartedly, in positively glowing terms. But upon a closer read, the words make breast-feeding a baby seem like a choice for a superwoman, not a regular woman. My sister, like...

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