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withdraw completely from the feeding bottle market in India by November 1996 (Johnson and Johnson, personal communi- cation).Important questions must now be faced: who will fund research and conferences; who will provide health workers with information; and who will monitor the marketing practices of industry?Professional and voluntary bodies that believe in complete independence from the baby food industry, even if it means acute shortage of resources, must either raise money from their own members or through publications.Governments, international organisations, and non- governmental organisations (including independent charitable trusts and other appropriate sources that do not create conflict of interest) will need to step into the breach.In India, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Department of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, and the Department ofWomen and Child Development, several chari- table trusts, and Unicef have been meeting such needs.Organisations such as the British Paediatric Association, which have apparently yet to realise that the interests ofmanu- facturers may conflict with those ofbreast feeding mothers and their children, should be guided by three thinkers who well understood human nature.In his book Raja-Yoga, SwamiVivekananda remarked that when one man receives a gift from another, he loses his independence."Milton Friedman said, "There's no such thing as a free lunch."And Aesop wrote, "Better starve free than be a fat slave."