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[ID] 899 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen Lactation Professional Public Health Worker [Comment] I think breastfeeding will become the norm in this country if and only if the United States government backs it 100%. Less than 100% of the government (HHS,for example) being 100% behind it will not work. When we pass legislation that backs the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and then enforce it, I will know that we are serious about making breastfeeding the norm. Right now we allow the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture formula to advertise and sabatoge breastfeeding in any way they can. Breastfeeding initiation and duration rates will rise and fall, but breastfeeding will never be accepted in this country until formula becomes the much needed substitute when nothing else is available and nothing more than that. [Topic] 
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