The Age
July 9, 2007 - 11:24AM


The row has prompted the Washington-based US Chamber of Commerce to intervene. Its chief sent a letter to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo urging her to re-examine the Health Department's plan or risk the country's "reputation as a stable and viable destination for investment."

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But unlike mothers in the United States and the European Union, who are moving more toward breast-feeding in the first few months, many in rapidly developing Asian countries are abandoning the practice.
Sorry for getting all political but this is one of the aspects of US foriegn policy that really, really, really, bugs me. Interefering in another countries' health (and other internal matters) policy and using its financial clout to try and blackmail them into providing markets for products that its own citizens are rejecting (or the FDA has banned).