That is all.
EDIT: Boy, did this get lively. And we have a new term here: "Mom shaming."
Interesting how all these people interpret the question in the title their own way, one that has nothing to do with this simple question, nor its intent.
Is all the formula sold for babies whose mothers can't breastfeed? No. Has baby formula been around the 150,000 years that Homo sapiens has been around? No. There's a fundamental problem here.
We humans need to be free. Free from large corporations. Free from government. If babies are dependent on large corporations and "supply chains," there is something seriously wrong.
The globalists created a fake "women's rights" movement to get women out of the home into fake careers so they could control and tax them. It is at that point that so many children stopped being breastfed. For 150,000 years it was totally normal for mothers to breastfeed their babies, then suddenly not? Seriously question this.
So then a manufactured shortage of baby formula causes complete chaos.
You are being manipulated, folks.
Some mothers physically cannot breastfeed. Is the answer to that to make those mothers dependent on corporate supply chains? Isn't there a better way to handle this? Shouldn't this be something produced on a household or local level?
Lots of the discussion below sounds like a pack of Wokes. It is based on emotion, not logical thought. Playing victim is never the answer. Finding practical, local solutions not dependent on the globalists is.
Here is a quote from the comments: "It's pretty easy for a man or non-mother woman to talk about breasts." Why does this writer assume that's who is writing this post? And "Mom shaming"?
Choose not to breast feed is another way of saying choose to work you know. Don’t pop off your opinion without any direct personal experience to help shape that opinion into something resembling reality
May I comment? I worked outside of the home because I was told I must. Parents, society and husbands. I nursed all three of my babies at least a year because I wanted to do the best of everything in my power for my kids. Not everyone does. How's that for direct personal experience?
So you were able to breast feed while also working outside the home?
Very fortunate that you were in a situation that enabled you to do so. That is not a universally available option. The reality is far fewer women, married or single, are in a position that allows for the choice to breast feed to actually be a choice for them.
Frankly no. I did not have a situation that allowed me to do so. Try working in the tech field a traditionally men's job in the 80s and 90s when I had my three. What they had was a woman who knew what I was going to do. Oh and your last sentence is bull. Woman have to stop believing that they can't! And just do. Lose your job or a husband? There are always more of each. And do not claim being single because I've been a single working mom more than once. Divorce and death. Being married has nothing to do with it.
Then maybe you’re misinterpreting what my prior 2 posts actually meant?
It seems based on your replies to me you’ve assumed my message and responded out of emotion in ways that seem largely to actually support and extend what my actual intended message was.
Allow me to clarify: not all women are able to breast feed for a variety of reasons, including medical, situational and economic to name a few. To the original post I responded to, the reply aimed to spotlight how without having lived the life of another it is foolish and arrogant in the extreme to expect another to make the same choices as one may imagine themselves to have chose.
It is actually easier to pump and breastfeed while working now than one and two generations ago, just check with HR and have them pull up regulations that require pumping stations, that are not bathrooms. Of course, if one is working from home it's not a question - unless they are also choosing to outsource their baby care.
And women that are waiting tables, on an assembly line or in a call center?
How reliable do you suppose day care centers are?
I mean mothers who choose exclusively not to breastfeed, those people exist. You can still breastfeed when you can and supplement with formula, making the formula you do have last longer, thus needing less. You sound like the pro abortionists not allowing anyone to have an opinion if they're not a woman.
There are as many - and more - that are not given the choice. Some are not able because they work. A lot. With poor or no reliable support systems (no family near and the friends they have are also working. A lot. )
Some are unable due to hard medical reasons.
Some are unable because some infants just will not breast feed. It happens - my middle daughter would not.
To presume that it all simply comes down to a choice to breast feed or not to is extraordinarily short sighted and strongly indicates lack of life experience to make such a proclamation.
Those are all valid cases, for sure. But I wasn't speaking of all women, I know many that simply refuse it because they think it'll make their breasts sag, or that it's disgusting and "not needed in today's day and age."
The ones that literally refuse to. You took that to assume I was referring to any woman that doesn't breastfeed as not wanting to.
Your points all stand on their own, and they are certainly valid.
And yet, simply choosing not to is also a perfectly valid reason, if only because neither you nor I know why that choice was made.
You sound like you’re defending a position against an attack that I never actually made