april journeys prompted me to this piece of news. it says that according to the National Anti-Poverty Commission, of the 12 million children most at risk, 2.2 million are underweight and 2.86 million are shorter than average.

and PGMA proposes to increase cow milk production as an answer.

cow’s milk? why would milk answer the poverty and malnutrition problem in the philippines?

breastfeeding is best for babies up to 2 years of age. give the cow’s udder some peace. use yours. afterall, it’s your child, not the cow’s. oh, we’re talking about school children, you say? before you rebutt that a woman can’t beastfeed for so long, take note that in some parts of africa, children are breastfed even up to age 6.

i wonder if they’ve taken into consideration that a lot of pinoys show lactose intolerance. probably an evolutionary trait.

and what’s wrong with goat’s and carabao’s milk, too?

the irony is, we currently live where milk and milk products abound. but my son has milk allergy; he can’t drink milk nor eat anything with milk protein in it. so what’s our alternative? rice milk, fortified with calcium-rich algae. ingredients? rice, seawater and the algae. the last time i looked, the philippines is an archipelago, where rice is one of the, if not the major agricultural crop. if my son can drink that, why can’t they?

additional info:
natumi
milk alternatives (in german)

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