urchasing medicines. In short, breast feeding enables families to achieve great self-sufficiency, thus reducing their dependency upon commercial (and interior) products. The conscientious person should also be sensitive to the effects breast feeding has on the environment. Breast feeding is ecologically sound since it uses only renewable resources and produces only biodegradable wastes. In contrast, bottle-feeding uses non-renewable resources such as tin, plastic, glass and silicon, and produces non-biodegradable wastes and pollution. Moreover, while breast milk is produce locally and on demand, bottle-feeding products are often transported considerable distances by multinational companies.Eisenburg points out that "Artificial milk involves; overgrazing of land by cattle, use of chemical fertilizers to grow the soy, use of valuable environmental resources for formula production, packaging and transporting of the product, use of water and fuel in mixing and heating the product, waste disposal of the cans, bottles, accessories, cartons, etc. Artificial feeding increases societal and personal health care costs and detrimentally effects the environment" (56).According to the Surgeon General of the United States, thirty to forty percent of new mothers start off breast feeding their babies. The official goal of the Surgeon General's office is to double the number so that seventy five percent of new mothers are breast-feeding. The women least likely to breast feed are low-income women. Unfortunately, these are the very women who are most likely to become obese after pregnancy and whose babies could most benefit from the long-term health benefits of breast feeding."Ever since Eve put Cain to suckle for the first time, breast-feeding has been coming naturally to mothers and newborns. Right? Well, that is not always the case, at least not right away" (McGough). Eisenberg would agree to this statement. Although nursing does come naturall...
