Even though BPA has been linked to so many harmful health effects, it is still used in American products -- most notably in infant and children's feedingproducts.
However feeding animals by-products of other animals can transmit dangerous diseases to humans, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in cows.
Mothers take part in nutritional workshops for 15 days in the home of a community health worker, during which they learn better feeding and child care practices, using a mix of traditional products and modern knowledge.
Wartman vilifies "the food industry" for providing consumers with calorie-rich products at low prices--that is, for feeding the poor, hardly a moral failing.