Do articles like this make you lean more towards breastfeeding?

Yes, it's long. Sorry! But I was just wondering if things like this make new moms or moms to be think twice about formula feeding. You surely don't have to worry about breastmilk killing your child. Contamination like this is possible everywhere, and isn't worth the risk.
Okay .. that's my little think. lol .. I am pro-breastfeeding, obviously. =)

I WILL NOT give thumbs down to anyone for their opinion as I know this is usually a "hot topic" for debate. I am just wondering if this changes the way you view formula feeding vs breastfeeding. (You can google the full article if you think I am making it up)

After covering the controversy this week over bisphenol A, a chemical found in such things as hard plastic baby bottles and the lining of infant formula cans, I couldn't help but make the comparison with the milk tragedy occurring in China. According to Reuters's last count, 6,244 children have become ill, with four dead and 158 suffering acute kidney failure from drinking formula laced with another plastic material called melamine. Chinese parents are in a justified state of panic, rushing their babies to emergency rooms for ultrasounds of their kidneys, while supermarket managers pull milk and yogurt from shelves after the chemical was found in fresh milk as well as the powdered kind added to formulas.

I know! It's so heart wrenching! I couldn't imagine losing my son to anything, but especially to something like this! A lot of people here in America are very naive about the potential of things like this happening here. What's even sadder, is in China, people are only allowed one child. Could you imagine not only losing your child, but losing your ONLY child and not being allowed to have more kids? =(

yeah, i'd be so scared about that stuff too, i'm glad i don't have to worry about it.

It actually just makes me appalled at the idea that ANY company would add chemicals to a product in an attempt to 'fool' lab tests into thinking their product was nutritionally adequate ... all to save a couple of pennies per can.

The 'normal' risks of formula are quite sufficient without having to add the problems of product tampering and criminal negligence.

I would choose to breastfeed either way......I don't really stress about chemicals. At some time or another your baby is going to eat/drink something that probably has chemicals in it or eat/drink out of something. Also there are chemicals in cleaning products, furniture, etc.

considering all those chinese babies that died it terrifies me. not that i have to worry about it but all teh poor little babies that go through that. you can't trust anyone these days

heck yeah, glad i don't have to worry about baby bottles and formula and such.

No, it doesn't make me think twice since the USA isn't China.

China is notorious for contaminated food *yuck* but the formula I fed my twins was made in Vermont, not China.

I am planning on breastfeeding my next baby but not because of tainted Chinese formula.

Also, my twins' formula didn't contain any BPA as their cans were lined with waxed cardboard and it was formula powder, not ready to use or concentrate. Another big difference.

The girls are happy and healthy.

Certainly, I see many benefits to breastfeeding but I'm much more concerned with situations like that in the American Southeast where some places ran right out of gas! Imagine not being able to find gas anywhere at all and then running out of formula and not being able to get more because you're stranded. That worries me more than tainted Chinese formula.