Media static on mothers milk. [Letter]

Sometimes one wonders if the fragile attribute of reasoning has been fleeing the planet] The media static concerning the subject embodied in your "The Controversial Code for Mothers Milk" (SN: 5/30/81 p.340) has been overwhelming. The 118 to 1 vote with the U.S. being the only "1" has been held up as an example that the U.S. doesnt care for people especially infants; Uncle Sam is merely a W. C. Fields in disguise. Irrespective of the merits of what and how mothers in the 3rd World countries should feed their babies the fact remains that these 118 countries have the sovereign power to prohibit or regulate the sale and use of infant formula and its advertising without consultation with any nation if it menaces the health of their people. I might say they have the duty to do so. Those countries that believe the use of the formulas is dangerous and have not taken any independent action only give credence to the thought that some hypocritical charade not necessarily oriented toward infant health was being staged. (Full Text)