Supporting breastfeeding is a motherhood statement for every politician, government department bureaucrat and health professional. Their failure to implement an international code on breastfeeding indicates the complexity of this public interest issue. Issues arising in lobbying on breastfeeding and artificial feeding and marketing of artificial feeding are analysed.
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