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Fuck The USA

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

It’s not rich for the working class

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago

All my buddies hate Nestlé

GNU Fuck Nestle.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 44 points 1 day 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.

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

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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 12 points 22 hours ago

Dogs have more parental leave than humans

… in the USA

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 points 1 day ago

That is bleak!

[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours 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.

To be pedantic, lactation consultants do

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Baby formula is usually cow's-milk-based

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

USian sentences