Predicted well in advance
Poor workers
They should unite or something
Predicted well in advance
Re-monopolization, new Gilded Age
Another great Cory Doctorow thread.
Similar solution, with environmental and safety upsides
striking failure of the free market
Baby Formula Shortage Could Leave Parents Scrambling for Months
not the winning argument Abbott believes.
the US government competently secured an adequate supply of formula for its infant detainees, while the free market is putting US babies in danger of starvation.
Abbott/Similac is serial violator of federal regulations, but lightly punished if at all.
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look up "DIY baby formula"
... to find medical profession and govt warning "don't do it you will injure or kill your baby."
iow, mothers are enslaved to corporate food-like substances for their kids.
iow, the docs and govt want you to be dependent of buying their , absolutely not independent, self-reliant.
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A concise history of infant formula (twists and turns included)
https://www.contemporarypediatrics.c...turns-included
Evil Nestle got caught and stopped from marketing baby formula powder (basically powdered milk, sugar, vitamins) to poor African women, telling them it was better than breast milk
The problem was the African women didn't have access to sterile water. Nestle didn't ing care.
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BABY FORMULA INDUSTRY SUCCESSFULLY LOBBIED TO WEAKEN BACTERIA SAFETY TESTING STANDARDS
The current formula shortage is traced in part to a contamination-induced shutdown at a key manufacturing plant.
A recently disclosed whistleblower do ent claims that managers at the Sturgis plant
falsified reports,
released untested infant formula, and
concealed crucial safety information from federal inspectors.
the industry successfully mobilized against a 2014 proposal from the FDA to increase regular safety inspections of plants used to manufacture baby formula.
https://theintercept.com/2022/05/13/...sting-lobbying
starvation
what happens when babies can't get safe, nourishing food?
Many babies have highly specialized formula for their dietary restrictions, you can't just give them pap and hope for the best in the absence of the reliable industrial product.
anecdotally, some parents have resorted to feeding tubes to prevent their babies from wasting..
you're out of touch, man
Truth be told, the so-called free market in this case isn't one, it's a state by state patchwork of monopolies determined by compe ive bidding, and the major buyer is the USG.
The so called North American Free Trade Agreement prevents Canada from importing into the US, and US law keeps foreign suppliers out unless they set up the factories here..
Such is the US theory of free trade.
Apparently it's not finely attuned to the immediate needs of the end user, despite the fact that it is supposed to be optimally suited to that in theory.
We see the inverse of this sort of policy in California, where the state is subsidizing demand (buyers) rather than increasing the supply of new housing
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022...overshoot.htmlSo this inflation is due largely, if not entirely, to the supply side. But all the Fed knows how to do is kill demand via interest rate hikes:
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^^^ doesn't know how bulletin boards work, stranger to thinking things through
Also, no topical take, pure towelsnapping
How did they survive before formulas? No one did, they all starved!
Of course you could clamp their heads with a pair of tongs and rip them apart. Your side is fighting to do that.
A lot of them just died, true.
beep checking in, bop to follow soon
DMC with no take.
Hopefully formula can be imported short term.
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