Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nestles states that "the preponderance of available evidence points to a mother's need, or desire, to work as the principal reason for the breast feeding decline." My review of studies from Third World countries and my own work suggests this is not the case. An analysis of recently published studies from five countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean suggests that no more than 6 per cent of mothers in any country said they gave up breast feeding in order to work...
...These include a lack of encouragement by health professionals, the fact that the breast has become a sex symbol and the belief that breast feeding may alter the contour of the breast, and the false impression that breast feeding is primitive and bottle feeding is sophisticated. But the main reason that women in developing countries bottle feed is that they falsely believe it is better for their infants. This belief has come largely from the promotional practices of the corporations who market infant formulas...
...even if she, humble as ever, could only repeat at the end of the interview "I still don't know quite why you're writing this," others may now have an inkling of the reason...
...always in agriculture, a diverse industry, one farmer's good fortune may result from another's pinch. An agricultural-loan specialist for California's Bank of America asserts: "You'd have to be pretty incompetent not to make money in cattle this year." Reason: a combination of high prices for meat and relatively low costs for corn and other feeds that has corn growers grumbling. Vegetable growers in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the winter-spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing...
...been expanding, and trying to beat the wild fluctuations in crop prices, in another way: bringing to the farm lands the concept known in industry as vertical integration. Like other growers, he resented having to take his beets for milling to the nearby American Crystal Sugar Co. plant. One reason: the company's officers, then based in Denver, insisted on shutting down the mills on weekends, even during harvest time when beets must be ground up quickly before they rot. Recalls Pat: "We were at the mercy of people a thousand miles away who just were not concerned with...