get educated Bill!

Cheryl from Utah sent some poweful information:

~If every baby was breastfed for at least 6 months, an estimated 1.5 million lives would be saved every year. UNICEF

~"The U.S. government spends more than $2,665,715 a year to provide formula for the children of non-breastfeeding mothers participating in the WIC supplemental food program. Of course, this doesn't take into consideration the additional costs of caring for those infants who are statistically much more likely to get sick. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, higher breastfeeding rates could reduce US health care costs by $3.6 billion per year."

~"If every child in America were bottle-fed, almost 86,000 tons of tin would be needed to produce 550 million cans for one year's worth of formula. If every mother in Great Britain breastfed, 3000 tons of paper (used for formula labels) would be saved in a year. But formula is not the only problem. Bottles and nipples require plastic, glass, rubber, and silicon; production of these materials can be resource-intensive and often leads to end-products that are not-recyclable. All these products use natural resources, cause pollution in their manufacture and distribution and create trash in their packaging, promotion, and disposal." -- (Which directly affects global warming and so, yes, Bill Maher, it IS a real issue because mothers often quit because of gawking and complaining jerks like you).

quoted from promom.com's 101 reasons for breastfeeding

a little education never hurt anyone. a lack of education can hurt a lot of people.