Response to "Number Speak for Themselves"
Tue, 2007-08-14 15:25
First off, how accurate are polls anyway? Not very. How many people have actually been approached and asked a poll question?
Second, how was then poll question phrased? How many of these people had read misleading articles or watched the outright LIES on the Today Show piece? If I thought formula was being completely banned from hospitals, then I'd be opposed, too. Poll results are even less reliable when you take into account how many people are ignorant on this issue... they cast their vote based on a misunderstanding of the issue.
And if numbers speak for themselves, then based on the posts in this forum, a much higher percentage of people is in favor of banning the samples... because there are many more posts here in favor of banning them, so does that mean that the majority of Americans agree? If so, that conflicts with the poll results.
Just from what little I've seen on message boards, I think that a lot of people had the wrong impression about what was actually occuring in the NYC hospitals. I saw a lot of outrage about formula in general being banned, and then "oh duh, it's just freebies, no one is denying babies food if their mothers refuse to BF". Sites like this one just further the confusion and misinformation, trying to twist it into an issue of rights being denied. How can anyone know what the truth really is with a propaganda machine with millions of dollars to work with trying so hard to due away with the facts?