In contrast, infant formula -- a $70 billion industry dominated by a few American and European companies -- is expensive and not nearly as healthy for children as breast milk.
When Ecuador tried to introduce the breast-feeding resolution, the U.S. threatened it with aid cuts and trade barriers. Several other Latin American countries were also threatened and quickly withdrew their names from a list of endorsers. Finally, Russia stepped in and introduced the resolution. The measure finally passed, but the U.S. successfully lobbied to remove language urging the World Health Organization to challenge "inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children."
So apparently the White House is fine with silicon in breasts, just not milk.
The Golden Cuisine Award to Ron Colburn, president of the U.S. Border Patrol Foundation, who told Fox & Friends that the tear gas used on migrants at the U.S. border was not harmful, because pepper spray was a "natural" product that "you could actually put on your nachos and eat it."
The Marie Antoinette Award has two winners this year:
* Nikki Haley, retiring U.S. Ambassador to the UN, who blasted Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) for supporting the UN's Special Rapporteur report on poverty in the US that found tens of millions of Americans suffer "massive levels of deprivation." In a letter to Sanders, Haley said it was "patently ridiculous" for the UN to even look at poverty in the US, because it is "the wealthiest and freest country in the world."
In a response, Sanders pointed out that while this country is indeed the wealthiest in the world, it is also one of the most unequal. "Some 40 million people still live in poverty, more than 30 million have no health insurance, over half of older workers have no retirement savings, 140 million Americans are struggling to pay for basic living expenses, 40 percent of Americans cannot afford a $400 emergency, and millions of Americans are leaving school deeply in debt."
* US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, who expressed surprise that the people attending the World Economic Forum in the resort town of Davos, Switzerland were considered elite. "I didn't realize it was the global elite."
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