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"?
In my career, I have seen many mothers in the hospital and the out-patient setting coming in for breastfeeding support. There are many reasons for breastfeeding problems, but the biggest is families who mean well, but tell mothers to just “give the baby formula”. Nowadays parents are led to believe they should train the baby like a puppy. Babies have a small stomach and need to feed 10 or more times per day. Many view this as a inconvenience and sabotage breastfeeding by giving formula to make the baby sleep. Slick advertising tells parents a particular formula is “closest to breast milk”. Breastfeeding takes education, patience, confidence and determination, since breastfeeding appears to be a lost art. People regard breasts as a sexual object-okay to wear next to nothing with revealing clothing, but disgusting if you discreetly feed a baby in public. This should be an awakening with transport issues, formula production issues, and crop and poultry destruction in the name of “Avian flu” and “ecoli contamination“. The only one you can depend on is yourself. You need to be self dufficient. Breastfeed so you are not dependent on formula/Big Pharma companies, improve your health to reduce medications you need to take, be prepared with canned foods, if you have a small area of land, grow and can or freeze your vegetables, have a supply of water stock piled and a rain barrel with the ability to clean the water. If you have a fireplace keep wood available just in case. This is all deliberate, part of the Deep State plan. It is going to get worse.
I got through a LOT of books while breastfeeding. Lol Plus, the time spent with my babies was just blessings. I am grateful to God and my husband that hubby was willing and able to support us so that I could do that.
Amen to this.