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While "technically" it is the responsibility of the individual mother regarding feeding the formula, it is also true that as her milk dries up, the baby becomes dependent on the formula, whether the family can afford it or not. Perhaps the proper role would be to reinvest back into the Third World, both in education and technology, to find a way that the basic issues surrounding the use of the formula are mitigated.
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Flikschuh, K. (2000). Kant and Modern Political Philosophy. Cambridge University
Press.
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BBC News World Edition. Cited in:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2590163.stm
For additional information on this controversy, see "The Ethics of Marketing Baby Milk Forumal in Developing Nations," (June 1, 2001). Ethics News and Views. Cited in: http://ethics.emory.edu/news/archives/000152.html.
However, the issue is more nuanced -- what if, as a humanitarian effort, a pharmaceutical company sold recently expired drugs at very low cost to an impoverished developing nation in the grips of an epidemic? What if a food company donated food that was safe but 'past its expiration date' to a famine-stricken nation? In this case, a utilitarian calculus would support such exchanges. The balance between the benefit of