Guest essay by Eric Worrall
An infant feeding specialist has called for curbs on the availability and use of baby formula, because of high CO2 emissions associated with its production.
Call to curb baby formula emissions
By AAP 3:31am Dec 4, 2019
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Dr Julie Smith, who has studied the economics of infant feeding for over 20 years, says greenhouse gas emissions caused by milk formula production have contributed to global environmental damage.
“The last decade has seen a global boom in formula feeding but this takes the world backwards in the face of contemporary global environmental and population health challenges,” the Australian National University researcher said on Wednesday.
In a paper published in the International Breastfeeding Journal, Dr Smith argued much of the increase in emissions from formula manufacturing can be linked to the expanding toddler milk product market.
She said the products were not only harmful for the environment, but the World Health Organisation has deemed it unnecessary and potentially harmful for children.
“We have got to reduce the manufacture and use of milk formula,” Dr Smith said.
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Read more: https://www.9news.com.au/national/call-to-curb-baby-formula-emissions/11cd81c4-e47d-45dc-888d-c4d95e8917e7
Dr. Smith’s call for reduced production of baby formula will likely be well received by climate activists, who frequently describe babies as a burden on the planet and a threat to global climate stability.
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Listen Jules why don’t you make yourself really useful and pop off to China and tell President Xi and the party apparatchiks their bubs have to stop drinking our formula and get back on the melamine there’s a good little watermelon-
https://au.news.yahoo.com/baby-formula-australia-china-daigou-032543894.html
Long term studies have shown that kids that were breastfed for the maximum amount of time are smarter and more successful later in life than the ones that were not.
Now if you look at all the current trends like no breastfeeding, putting children away from their families (the first three years are very important for the later success in life of a child), forcing them to sit in front of displays in schools (the rich and powerful send their children to Waldorf-like schools and forbid family members to use their services like FB, Whatsapp etc.) it makes you thinking…
If there must be substitute baby milk, it should be made from hemp. Soy is very good for women, but not so good for men.
Interesting that this Australian lady focuses on the CO2 produced by making baby milk, when Australia excavates over 300 million tonnes of coal per year. If she is really concerned about the climate, why doesn’t she go after the coal companies? Possibly because the tax these companies pay indirectly support her University job.
Dr Mike, I am an ‘Australian lady’, my thoughts and actions are nothing like those of Dr Julie whoever. You obviously have little understanding of Australia’s political, social or economic standing. As it happens the majority of universities here are so far left that even if you uttered the word ‘coal’ then as a student you would be expelled and as a member of faculty you would be fired, well at least severely ostracised.
They (those ‘university people’) fired Professor Peter Ridd because, after having studied the Great Barrier Reef for more than three decades he had the audacity to say that it was just as it was meant to be. Turned out he was right.
No, don’t put coal and Dr Julie Smith in the same sentence, I was surprised that she got this much attention. I suspect that she is an extreme feminist who has no understanding of how things really are.
Dr Mike, we don’t have alot of options in regards to power here in Australia.
Hydro is not an option in most parts, we have water restrictions in place already in many places, few plentiful sources.
Australian politicians won’t even talk about nuclear power, even the submarines they have in the pipeline will not be nuclear.
Geothermal energy isn’t an option, no volcanic activity here.
Please don’t take away our coal.
For us the remaining option is wind and solar energy and those of us who know it’s short, inefficient, ecological damaging and CO2 footprint, do not want a bar of it!
Check out the link here, if you haven’t already seen it, click on the embedded link that shows a picture from space of the type of mining needed to source materials for ‘clean energy’.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/rare-earth-mining-china-social-environmental-costs
If we don’t sell coal to the Chinese they will simply buy it from someone else. They need it for the processing plants and manufacturing industry that build ‘clean energy’! The CO2 that the ‘greens’ are responsible for.
We are already having to close down some manufacturing here in different states, permanently I mean. The state’s that rely heavily on wind and solar energy have been requesting that some of the larger manufacturing companies shut down their power at different times. You cannot stop and start an aluminum smelting factory.
Perhaps those amazing Aussies should send Dr Smith (we’re Doomed) lumps of coal as Christmas gifts
Not to worry
Cote de ivoire and the Democratic republic of the congo will save the planet.
Leo Hickman writes
“which countries have brought the largest delegations. Topping the table this year is Côte d’Ivoire, with a whopping 348 delegates. That makes their delegation more than 50 people larger than the second-placed country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
“Climate Crisis: “We have got to reduce the manufacture and use of Milk Formula””
– this is reminiscent of
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&biw=360&bih=518&sxsrf=ACYBGNSrOSoMjiUo9qMmdHoyYiqUI0RroQ%3A1575343410939&ei=MtXlXYTwONCckwXbpZ-4Bg&q=is+eating+placenta+cannibalism&oq=is+eating+placenta+cannibalism&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.