An Irish Priest Speaks Out On Dangers of Enterobactyer Sakazakii
Father Shay Cullen is an Irish Catholic priest working mostly in the Philippines with kids who live on the streets and jails. His work has often been recognized in the U.K., Canada, and the United States. Father Cullen weighed in last Sunday with advice to mothers in the developing world in light of the recent melamine scandal. His comments ran in the Manila Sunday Times, and we want to share some of what he said.
It’s very disturbing to learn that children face the risk of infection and even death because of the brainwashing of mothers that milk formula is better than mother’s milk for their babies. It just goes to show the power of persuasion, the ability of the subliminal advertising of the pharmaceutical and food companies to manipulate mothers. It has overturned the age-old proven practice that has assured the survival of the human race. Breast-feeding has been the way from the beginning of human existence and in this short past forty years it has been undone.
Children are now more in danger of sickness and death than ever before because of this one change caused by the greed and irresponsibility of the money-driven corporations. The World Heath Organization (WHO) has campaigned tirelessly, with government health departments and non-government organizations, to reverse the all-powerful influence of these economic behemoths that care more for profits than for people.
The China melamine catastrophe of recent weeks is just one more example of the corrupt practices that food corporations will do to profit at the expense of children. They deliberately contaminated milk powder with a toxic chemical to increase the protein reading and make it appear acceptable to the other food companies producing powder milk formula...
He goes on to say: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and WHO in February 2004 convened a panel of experts who concluded that infant formula has inherent contamination of Enterobacter Sakazakii and Salmonella that cause serious illness leading to developmental sequelae and even death. The evidence is overwhelming that these milk formulas are bad for babies and here have been dozens of product recall around the world.
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