I have no idea how magazines got published before computers. What I mean is, breastfeeding support shouldn't need to come from an international organization. Breastfeeding information used to come from mothers and close friends who spoke from experience. In societies where adult children may be widely separated geographically from their parents and in which mothers of nursing mothers may not have had much, if any, experience with breastfeeding, LLL becomes a necessity. The extent to which these alternatives damage children and ecosystems is horrifying.
Breastfed babies are far healthier than their bottle-fed peers.
This is not because there is anything inherently dangerous in formula, only that formula can't possibly replace all the benefits of human milk. It is rich with all the nutrients that the human body requires for proper development. Cow's milk passes on many of these same benefits to calves, but the nutrients and immunological factors are specifically suited for calves, not humans, and once cow's milk is processed, any immunological factors are destroyed anyway. Cow's milk is perfect for calves, but ill-suited for human children. The effects of this mismatch are devastating.