Dear Editor: 1 agree, Ms. Babicki, that a business has the right to promote any product in a free market aconomy, but there are ethical and mora! obligations which go beyond this. If formula companies marketed only to the 5% of women who cannot breastfed due to physical reasons and the 10% who choose not to for various reasons, it might be acceptable. However, free samples to pharmacies, hospitals, doctors and mothers do not: discriminate. Mead-Johnson, Canada, explains that new mothers are targeted at two critical points ‘‘prior to delivery, _ Classes, as well as when she leaves the hospital with her new baby.” Profits estimated for formula sold each year are 10-25% of IWA discussed Dear Editor: I was most upset when I read the ‘‘News Viewpoint’? in the March 4 edition of your newspa- per. The writer, in referring to IWA-Canada's presentation to the GVRD’s water committee meeting of Feb. 20, stated that the IWA- discussed only job-related issues. Obviously, the writer did not - attend the meeting, as he or she would have heard a member of ITWA-Canada's staff discuss only water quality issies. The brief which we presented argued that low-level, pro-active through pre-natal - MAILBOX Breastfeeding needs protection from aggressive product marketing practices USS5 billion. The product which lactation consultants promote has no recognized economic value to anyone except the breastfeeding family, no marketing department with money for promotion, and does not provide company profits and shareholder dividends. Breastfeeding needs to be pro- tected from the aggressive market- ing practices of a second-rate product. Formula companies are not competing with lactation consul- tants for their market share, but with breastfeeding mothers and babies. Eighty-three per cent of British Columbia mothers initiate breastfeeding, while less than 10% of Canadian infants are receiving any breastmilk at one year (Cana- dian Pediatric Society recommen- dations). water quality management was in fact a better way to ensure long-term high quality water for current and future residents of the Lower Mainland. Job loss was referred to only in the sense that it would be foolish to harm the workforce with a moratorium that would also det- rimentally affect water quality. I hope that in future, proper research is done by your editorial board prior roneous information. J.J, Munro, president IWA-Canada -\N. Shore News Mailbox policy LETTERS TO the editor must in- clude your name, written legibly, your full address and telephone number. ' ‘ Due to space contraints the >in Calas » Available in White at additional cost son $1699 [i] coLony HOME FURNISHINGS 1075 Roosevelt Crescent ‘North Vancouver (2 blocks behind the Avalon Hotel) OPEN DAILY, Fri. @-@; Sun. 12-4 985-8738 North Shore News cannot publish all letters. Published letters may be edited for brevity, clarity, ac- curacy, legality and taste. Letters , Serv ing the North Shore for 20 years can be faxed to 985-3227. to publishing er- . Most lactation consultants pro- vide their service free and are merely replacing the lost lactation experts of 80 years ago; every grandmother, mother, aunt, sister and friend. Their goal is to have every woman knowledgeable on breastfeeding so that women can Wednesday, March 18, 1992 - North Shore News — 7 inform, help and support each other. Lactation consultants do not wish to survive; we want breastfeeding to survive. Marion Brown Lactation consuitant North Vancouver Teenagers helped senior Dear Editor: On the afternoon of Feb. 19 our elderly father, Harry Hansen, fell in the 900-block of 22nd Avenue in West Van- couver. The first people on the scene were severa! teenagers who immediately went to Kiwanis Lodge where he lived. Their prompt action meant he was in professional hands in familiar surroundings prior to being transferred to Lions Gate Hospital. He had broken both his hip and arm. Unfortunately, this was too | DRAPERIES much for him to overcome and on March I he passed away. To those teenagers who could have continued on their way but chose to stop and help, our sincere thanks. We wish we knew your names and school so we could thank you personally. Your presence in the com- munity lightens the lives of the many seniors in that immediate area. Sonja Fowles Irene Strong North Vancouver BY S. 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