[Marxism] China milk scandal

[n.fredman.11 at scu.edu.au]

I'm currently writing an article for Green Left, that takes up the points made here, but also the question of the commodification of infant nutrition. I.e. the push, particularly in poor countries, to replace breastfeeding with artificial formula. One of the bigger disasters produced by corporate dominated orthodox medicine in recent decades.

Of course, somewhat like antibiotics, formula has valid uses in particularly situations, such as acute health crises, but has been massively over-used for the sake of food cartel profits, with disastrous public health outcomes (even without added toxic sludge).

The current GL is a 2-weeker so this should be online http://www.greenleft.org.au October 12 or 13.