National Breastfeeding Awareness Week is dropped

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/campaigners-livid-as-whitehall-axes-breastfeeding-week-2287445.html

It is such a shame that this is not going ahead this year, increasing pressure on local support groups, most of whom have also had funding slashed or withdrawn completely.  Although this article is supportive, the opening sentence, that health professionals like to drum the message about the advantages of breastfeeding 'into exhausted mother's brains', hardlyextols the virtues, but puts everyone in mind of the 'breastfeeding nazis',  the label given by some to anyone who is pro-breastfeeding.  Forget the scientific research that puts
the health benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby far above anything that money or lifestyle can give you, forget the 'dangers' of formula, the increasing allergy rate in children and the ballooning obesity epidemic that is sweeping across the western world.  These problems will not disappear unless breastfeeding is put firmly on the government 's agenda, not the wishy washy half hearted attempts at promotion that they have used in the past, but proper funding for local support for mothers, up to date training for health professional across the board, and programmes in schools that put breastfeeding in a positive light for girls and boys.  Without this the rates will never increase, and the health problems our country is experiencing now will only ever increase.  Another own goal for the Cameron/Clegg Government.