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"?
There's something to be said about choosing your career and when you have a kid. Someone working on an assembly line with no breaks and no quality childcare available who can't take any maternity leave probably isn't in a good position to decide to start a family nor be undertaking risky activity that could potentially start a family (though accidents happen).
I helped set up the Mothers Rooms at my office, for all 3 floors. We're a sales company who, despite being remote capable, still took the time and effort (6 flights of stairs of effort because the furniture didn't fit on the elevator) to make those places for nursing mothers. Some of us take this very seriously, and if the current employer doesn't, my advice is to find one that does. The future belongs to the people who make it there, so start a family and don't let a bunch of assholes who only look at productivity reports decide when you do.
That is great. With a labor shortage, why not recruit young mothers with this approach?
You work in an office by your own words. What arrogance and cowardice to think you are so superior to those that don’t live your exact experience? To even suggest that someone working in a factory should just not have children at all - or maybe you’re suggesting that since they have children they are disqualified From working at all?
The absolute nerve of people like you is worse than the worst lefty nut jobs.
Or, everyone should align their priorities and pursue what is most important to them. As I said before, an asshole reading a productivity chart shouldn't get to decide whether someone has kids. However, they absolutely will decide their work policies. Therefore, the person who wants to start a family is best served locating an employer who mirrors their ideals and provides for their needs.
And before you start making more outlandish statements about how those good employers don't exist: yes I do, and go read the comment you responded to again.
Quit putting words in my mouth.
YOU by your own words are suggesting that everyone should align their priorities as you have your own implying that’s the only right way to do so.
You clearly know nothing of life outside your own personal experience - and anyone reading that has actually experienced life outside your bubble community can see it.
For starters, it’s ABUNDANTLY clear you have 0 concept of what life is like in rural communities. There are so few options on jobs to begin with that it makes a mockery of what you just wrote based on that alone. Next I would bet your response will be ‘just move then’ which is almost always the follow up when bubble-world suburbanites like yourself are presented with what reality is like for so much of the country, indeed so much of the world.
Get some real world experience outside of your bubble before preaching how others should go about their lives. What works for you only works for you because you had much easier choices that allowed you to get where you are to begin with.
OR, I worked retail and factory jobs in my teens and twenties in a town that had more cows than people then a garbage college town, went to college, and now I have a greater appreciation for the blessings I have and where I am because of that journey. That journey is from making those exact choices and assigning those priorities I mentioned before.
Blaming everyone else isn't going to get you anywhere, even if you call it "seeing reality" or whatever name you call the justification for not making the hard calls. Assign priorities, ask for help from anyone you can stand to, and claw your way to where you want to be by any means you can. The difference between doing this the evil way and the good way is that good people can recognize their blessings and try to bring others up as well, which I have.
Pride will only hold you and others where you are. The only thing you owe anyone else is compassion and gratitude, but you do owe yourself to absorb what knowledge others are trying to give you. That lesson took me a long time to learn, too.