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Sweet photo of dad feeding baby turns controversial
I never would have thought that one day I’d have a favorite New Zealand rugby player, but now I do.
Everyone, meet Piri Weepu.
Weepu found himself in a breastfeeding firestorm recently when the New Zealand government put him in an anti-smoking public service announcement. The ad initially included an endearing two-second shot of him feeding his 6-month-old daughter from a bottle. However, the country’s Health Sponsorship Council bowed to pressure from La Leche League and other motherhood advocacy groups, which claimed that the image didn’t mesh with its core message: that breastfeeding is best for children. "It's really important that those messages are consistent across the board,” New Zealand La Leche League director Alison Stanton said.
Here, you can see both the anti-smoking ad and the image of Weepu giving his daughter a bottle that was edited out of the spot. I must warn you, though: Click on that link only if you have the stomach to see something as alien, evil and corrupt as A FATHER FEEDING HIS CHILD. I hope you can fight off the urge to wail uncontrollably and smash any furniture within reach.
Now, there are plenty of organizations with good intentions and stated goals that take things waaaaaay too far (looking
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New Zealand scrumhalf Piri Weepu suffers stroke
New Zealand scrumhalf Piri Weepu will release at smallest four weeks of Marvellous Rugby care for his City Blues take as perform recovers propagate a unimportant stroke.
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Piri Weepu
Birth Name: Piri Awahou Tihou Weepu
Place of Birth: Lower Hutt, North Island, New Zealand
Date of Birth: 7 September, 1983
Ethnicity: Māori, one quarter Niuean, one eighth Welsh, some French, English, Scottish, and Irish
Piri Weepu is a New Zealand rugby union player. He played mostly at half-back, and occasionally at first five-eighth. He was a key figure of the All Blacks team, which won the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Piri led the Haka, the traditional Māori war dance performed by the All Blacks before any match, for a record 51 times. He has also played for Wellington, Hurricanes, Blues, Auckland, London Welsh, Wasps, Oyonnax, Narbonne, and Wairarapa Bush.
Piri is the son of Kura Turner and Ihaia (Oxx/Bill) Weepu II. He is married to Candace. Piri is a cousin of television and radio host Stacey Morrison.
Piri’s paternal grandfather is named John “Johnny” Patali Tione Lui. Johnny was Niuean. Niue is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. Piri’s step-grandfather was Ihaia (Eli) Weepu. Piri wrote about Johnny in his autobiography, Piri – Straight Up: Cups, Downs & Keeping Calm (2012).
Piri’s paternal grandmother is Henrietta Tewhe “Heni” Robinson (the daughter of Teoti “George” Robinso