Radical Moms Union Digest #2
Boob news for your head tubes!
Well, we really did the 👉 LORD’S WORK!🤘 these last two weeks! We started off by busting out our highlighters, paper clips, and neck braces from such ardent head nodding prompted by the Lancet’s blockbuster series on breastfeeding.
We know you are busy tending to mini-Nubian goats in your homestead or getting into endless debates with anti-cosleeping accounts on Tik-Tok, so that’s why we read the entire 3 paper series from the Lancet and summarized it for you!
In “All the Bangers from the Lancet’s Breastfeeding Study” Pt. 1 you will find:
Easy to understand stats about how formula has been normalized GLOBALLY.
The way formula companies operate EXACTLY like big pharma and tobacco by funding, cherry picking, and mass distributing flawed ‘corporate science’ studies about their product to sway medical professionals
“What we are actually selling is sleep”- a formula marketing brand CEO
Details on how the formula industry has reframed exclusive breastfeeding as ‘antifeminist’
Pt 2: Pinay Breastfeeders Versus the Nestle Vampire Squid
Here we cover the final paper in the series which breaks down how:
the bloodsucking vampire squid of corporate interests that’s wrapped itself around the face of humanity— eg global food conglomerates—and created a policy dystopia to sell their products
Nestle remains the worst offender
Filipina moms along with the collective mobilization of breastfeeding coalitions, civil society organizations, and women's groups beat back formula interests from deregulation
Next, Andrea took us on a fascinating journey through her homesteading days (Zombie chickens! Craigslist pigs! Sustainable land use!) to probe why so many of us middle class suburbanites long for some form of luxury serfdom and what that says about the Ballerina Farms ‘controversy’.
Finally, what started out as a quest for weight loss and clean living turned into a never ending panic state about mold! In “Serenity Prayer for the Crunchy Mom,” Andrea swims free from tidal wave of ‘gram content telling her everything in her house is trying to murder her family with parabens. You also deserve this freedom!
BOOBS IN THE NEWS
The New Yorker did an in-depth piece on Biomilq, a lab-grown ‘human milk’ start-up that’s taking mammary cells and trying to harvest breastmilk from them. If you look at their website, it has all of the same formula tropes:
The CEO, Michelle Egger, is Stanford educated and made her bones at General Mills where she helped developed Go-Gurt and “low-sugar bulk yogurt for schools.”
And are you ready for it?
Cause you know what’s coming, here’s why she decided to start a her ‘human milk’ formula company. From the article:
[Egger] certainly planned to breastfeed. But the first weeks of her baby’s life called those expectations into question. “When you find, actually, my body is not making enough milk for my baby—what’s up with that?” she said. “Is my body actually not made for this?”
A REMINDER: Breastmilk is a process, not a product. When we talk about breastfeeding giving babies the best start in life we’re not just talking about nutrition, we’re talking about the immense benefits— nutritional, developmental, psychological— to both baby and mom.
Preview for Next Week : Kicking the Economist out of the Nursery
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