Breastfeeding advice worked only because women first abandoned traditional fishing

Evidence

The Mohawk officials reassured the community to continue breast feeding their infants in spite of high levels of toxic contamination in the local fish and wildlife. But this advice was only viable because of the drastic reduction in the amount of fish consumed in the community. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 125

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ecofeminist thread and the sacrifice article — the physical and cultural cost always borne by mothers and the community. — connects to: Breast milk PCB levels ran 200 percent higher in fish-eating Mohawk mothers — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 124; Mothers transmit concentrated industrial toxins to infants through breast milk — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 119