And two links for Jenn, courtesy of emmagrant01

[conuly]

They're actually the same link. Or very much related, anyway. I'm rather disappointed that she didn't comment on the tiger cubs one....

Incidentally, did you know that Friskies is a subsidiary of Nestle? I did *not* know this. Now I do. Yay me?

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

I really don't understand the anti-breast feeding fuss. What possible more appropriate location is there to breastfeed a child than an eating establishment? You're eating, other people are eating, the child is eating.

My sister recently commented about how: name a location, and I've breastfed there. Zoo, yup. Eiffel tower, yup. etc. She's traveled a lot and has two kids, so she's ended up breastfeeding them almost everywhere.

Breastfeeding is also incredibly commonly depicted in art. Because there are countless madonna with child or other religious figures as babies breastfeeding in countless works of art. Baby and child is one of the most common themes. Probably because it's also such a huge part of life.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

I really don't understand the anti-breast feeding fuss. What possible more appropriate location is there to breastfeed a child than an eating establishment? You're eating, other people are eating, the child is eating.

Frankly, the presence of young children where I'm eating tends to spoil my dinner anyhow, because I'm just waiting for one to start screaming or running around or throwing things or emitting inconvenient bodily fluids, and I'm just waiting for the parents to either ignore it or may 'aww, isn't that cute' noises while their spawn act like untamed, disease animals.

Possibly working in a restaurant and having to clean up after those kind of people has made me bitter. (My parents were far from exemplary -- really, they should both have been in jail by the time I was five -- but even they had enough shame not to take me or my sister out like that until we could behave indoors, and not to encourage us when we didn't.)

But not wanting breastfeeding in a restaurant sounds more like it's about "OMG I CANNOT SEE TEH TITTEHS MY EYEEEEEEES!" than it is about "take that kid elsewhere, please." Seriously, people. They're breasts. Nipples. Mammary glands. We all got up close and personal to them for at least the first few days of life. You'd think we'd've gotten over the novelty back then.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I do disapprove of parents who do that. I can completely understand that sentiment. But the baby who is breastfeeding probably isn't yelling, screaming, making a fuss, or otherwise being obnoxious.

I believe that you should try to take your children into situations you think they can handle appropriately (don't take them to a movie if they can't keep quiet during it, wait til they're older, etc.) and removing them if they turn out to be unable to handle something you thought they could.

But as you said, that doesn't seem to be the breastfeeding argument.