More Views on Melamine in U.S. Infant Formula
Posted by MamaWendy on Nov 29 2008 at 1:21 pm | Tagged as: Breastfeeding, Buzz, Health, My Two Cents, Natural Living
I know I just wrote a post about this topic, but I came across an outstanding article on my husband’s current favorite website, naturalnews.com. In recent days we’ve all found out that 90 percent of U.S. infant formula may be contaminated with melamine, and with that news we also heard that the FDA now says it’s safe; as long as the contamination level is less than one part per million (1 ppm).
I really thought that article by Mike Adams of naturalnews.com had some wonderful points. Specifically, he notes that the FDA has no new science to back up their changing stance on safe levels of melamine. Rather, it seems like the FDA is making their decisions with big business’ interests in mind.
He also raises the question about how melamine made it into the infant formula by discussing several theories. One of those theories questions the animal feed that U.S. dairy cows are fed; perhaps the feed is contaminated with melamine and we have a dairy industry that’s producing contaminated milk.
And another point he makes that I agree with is that this is a great reason to breastfeed your babies! It seems that us as parents have to protect our babies, since the FDA wants to protect big business, so we need to be returning to natural foods – if we haven’t already. Breastmilk is natural; babies were born to be breastfed!
My husband and I often get comments because we choose not to give our son cow’s milk (hey, we don’t drink it either). People don’t have much to say when I simply remind them that cow’s milk was meant for baby cows; human milk was meant for baby humans! It’s really that simple (or it should be).
Wendy – Parenting Tips 365
