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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 98 points 2 weeks ago

I recall seeing an article talking about how baby formula companies offered free formula to deeply impoverished new mothers in some African countries. After the mothers went long enough without breastfeeding, they'd stop producing, making them dependent on buying more formula.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 84 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

GNU Fuck Nestle.

[-] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

All my buddies hate Nestlé

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 53 points 2 weeks ago

Also, since the mothers did not have access to clean water for the formula, they used what eas available resulting in 212,000 dead infants. Per year.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

It’s also a different ingredient list for third world country formula with much more cheap sugar.

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago

Puppies aren't allowed to be separated from their mother for at least 6 weeks. Dogs have more parental leave than humans

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Dogs have more parental leave than humans

… in the USA

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

we had to adopt the cat (4 cats ago) that bonded closest to me at 5 weeks. i bottle fed her. i miss her the most of all the cats who have passed. her mom licked the wrong bucket at the neighborhood crack den.

[-] pipi1234@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That is bleak!

[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

yea, obviously if you're at home breast-feeding, then you're not buying as much formula for whomever is tending the baby while you're at work.

i always thought it was funny how people will feed their baby some synthetic formula, but as the kid grows up then they insist on cow's milk instead of some alternative

[-] cy888@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Formula instead of breast milk due to advertising from formula manufacturers.

Cows milk because of advertising for US department of agriculture on behalf of dairy farmers.

[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

no one makes any money from mothers breastfeeding their babies. so yea,. formula

[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

To be pedantic, lactation consultants do

[-] ChexMax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah plus whoever makes lanolin, nipple shields, nursing bras and tops, burp cloths, pump parts, and then eventually therapists i assume, because I'm breast feeding rn and it's making me a freakin crazy person. I need more sleep.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

The milk doesn't just appear out of thin air. Lactating moms need to eat a lot more to produce it. Someone out there is profiting from that extra food.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Baby formula is usually cow's-milk-based

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

One of the richest countries on earth btw. There is no excuse.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s not rich for the working class

[-] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

USian sentences

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