{"id":5210,"date":"2008-01-09T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2008-01-09T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T09:15:01","slug":"baby-food-and-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/baby-food-and-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Food and the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/businessstandard.com\/search\/storypage_new.php?leftnm=4&amp;leftindx=4&amp;subLeft=1&amp;autono=309707\" title=\"Devangshu Datta: Whose baby is it anyway?\">an excellent piece on surrogate motherhood<\/a> by Devangshu Datta, I discover that it is illegal to advertise baby food in India. Devangshu mentioned in conversation that this is because our government wants to promote breastfeeding in India. It assumes that all of us, parents and potential parents, are too stupid to decide what&#8217;s good for us, and do not have the right over our own bodies and our children to take such decisions. The government, <i>mai-baap<\/i> of all us <i>mai-baaps<\/i>, must tell us what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Someday, I hope, we grow up.<\/p>\n<p><b>Earlier<\/b>: <a href=\"\/mommy-daddy-go-away\/\" title=\"Mommy-Daddy, go away!\">Mommy-Daddy, go away!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/businessstandard.com\/search\/storypage_new.php?leftnm=4&amp;leftindx=4&amp;subLeft=1&amp;autono=309707\" title=\"Devangshu Datta: Whose baby is it anyway?\">an excellent piece on surrogate motherhood<\/a> by Devangshu Datta, I discover that it is illegal to advertise baby food in India. Devangshu mentioned in conversation that this is because our government wants to promote breastfeeding in India. It assumes that all of us, parents and potential parents, are too stupid to decide what&#8217;s good for us, and do not have the right over our own bodies and our children to take such decisions. The government, <i>mai-baap<\/i> of all us <i>mai-baaps<\/i>, must tell us what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Someday, I hope, we grow up.<\/p>\n<p><b>Earlier<\/b>: <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/mommy-daddy-go-away\/\" title=\"Mommy-Daddy, go away!\">Mommy-Daddy, go away!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Baby Food and the State - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/baby-food-and-the-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Baby Food and the State - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Via an excellent piece on surrogate motherhood by Devangshu Datta, I discover that it is illegal to advertise baby food in India. 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