INFANT FEEDING AFFECTS CLIMATE CHANGE

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INFANT FEEDING AFFECTS CLIMATE CHANGE
info_at_maltabreastfeeding.org
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Infant feeding options

• Option 1 Option 2
• Bottle feeding Breastfeeding

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Let us take a look at both options starting
with bottle feeding .
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Milk fed in bottles can come from cows or human
mothers.
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Bottle feeding cows milk

• Cows reared for the production of milk frequently
  are made to pasture on land that is purposely
  deforested for this use
• Though its not their fault cows produce much
  of the methane that contributes to the green
  house effect.

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Cows' milk is expressed by machines it is then
transported to the factories that turn cows'
milk into a powdered formula for the consumption
of human babies.
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• The seemingly insignificant little bottle
  requires tens of factories to manufacture the
  products used in artificial infant feeding - all
  using up precious scarce fuel and causing
  pollution and waste!

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Factories that make formula for human infants
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Factories that make tin for the cans and
factories that make the cans
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Factories that make the plastic for the bottles,
factories that make the bottles, factories that
make the caps
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Factories that make the teats
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Factories that make the labels and do the printing
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Factories that make the sterilisers
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Factories that make the cardboard boxes and
lifters for the packaging
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• Further use of precious scarce fuel is used in
  transport.
• All these products have to be first
  intra-transported between the manufacturers and
  then transported to the distributors in all
  industrialised countries and in some
  underdeveloped countries causing more pollution
  and waste!

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Once the products are at the shops you have to
use your resources like money, time and effort -
to purchase the products to feed your child.and
transport them to your home.
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At home you will spend more precious time, effort
and money to make up the bottles measuring,
boiling water, mixing, washing up, sterilising
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When you express your breastmilk you are
relieving the Earth from the burden of dealing
with the negative results of much of the
manufacturing processes mentioned above
Bottle feeding human mothers milk
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• . but you are still using products like pumps,
  bottles or cups, teats, packaging, bags,
  containers, fridges and using resources like fuel
  in the form of gas and electricity, money, time
  and effort.

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BOTTLE FEEDING CONTRIBUTES TO GLOBAL WARMING

• To make up this bottle for your baby - Earth, its
  inhabitants and its atmosphere have to suffer!

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Now a look at breastfeeding
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Baby is put to the mothers breast the shortest
distance possible for fresh human milk to go to
its destination in optimum condition with no
negative effects on the Earth, its atmosphere and
its present and future inhabitants ....
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• for as long as you want,
• wherever you want,
• whenever you want !

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The choices we make

• Cleaner climate is safeguarded by the
  intelligent choices we make as individuals
  regarding our consumption and our behaviour.
• Breastfeeding is a natural resource that
  requires little energy and produces little waste.
  It costs near to nothing to make and time
  dedicated directly concerns feeding.
  Breastfeeding ensures a
• cleaner climate.
• 95 of mothers have no physical or mental health
  problems that disable them from breastfeeding.
• What is your choice?