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Can a Formula Company Really Promote Breast-Feeding and Fight Child Obesity?

Breast-feeding advocates say the partnership between Newark, N.J., and Nestle — a major baby formula maker — to reduce childhood obesity and promote breast-feeding is inappropriate, like "R.J. Reynolds sponsoring an exercise program."

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‘Formula Powered’? Lactivists Tussle with Old Navy

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Tons of parents — myself included — buy their kids’ wardrobes at Old Navy. The clothes are cheap, cute … and controversial. This month, lactivist (translation: lactation activists) mommy bloggers hit fast and furious in response to a green, long-sleeved onesie sold in stores and at oldnavy.com emblazoned “Formula Powered.”

Whole Foods C.E.O. infuriates liberal customers by condemning universal health care

In a Wall Street Journal editorial titled, “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare,” John Mackey, the founder and C.E.O. of Whole Foods—one of the world’s biggest retailers of “natural” and organic foods—stirred up furor among his left-leaning customer base by denouncing Obama’s health care plan as likely to “move us much closer to a government [...]