Elizabeth Ben-Ishai is a Senior Researcher and Campaign Coordinator at 
Breastfeeding moms boot Nestlé from maternity wards.
by Elizabeth Ben-Ishai
From TIME magazine’s provocative photo of a mother breastfeeding her toddler to the recent controversy surrounding an American University professor who breastfed her baby while teaching a class, how we feed babies often attracts its fair share of media attention.
But while news coverage often focuses on what are perceived as personal choices related to infant feeding, an important piece of the puzzle is often missing from their analysis: the intrusion of massive corporations into the relationships between patients and health-care providers, and the subordination of public-health considerations to profit margins.