Image description: a two panel meme with a bearded man speaking.

Panel 1: “You wanna know what I do when I see people stealing food or baby formula?”

Panel 2: “Fucking nothing because I’m not a fucking asshole.”

      • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        People do use a car in many scenarios where walking or public transport is just fine and it is the same on this whole powdered milk industry.

        • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Did you miss the point on purpose?

          There are mothers who are literally unable to breastfeed, just like there are people who are literally unable to walk (e.g. bound to a wheelchair.)

          In a discussion about a family member trying to steal a wheelchair for a person with a disability, if you post a comment saying “walking is free hurr durr,” then you would get the same reaction from other commenters.

          • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
            32·
            1 year ago

            The only difference is that I don’t see the “wheelchair industry” targeting people who can literally walk on their own.

            There is a huge difference here and more and more this industry is making people replace breastfeeding to buy their formula instead.

            And it’s not me saying this, is the WHO itself

            More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing

            Don’t you think that many of those people think they need the formula because they were brainwashed by capitalist propaganda?

            • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              1 year ago

              Still missing the point.

              I understand what you’re saying, but it doesn’t represent all the reasons for which a baby may need formula.

              Stop insisting in that red herring argument.

              • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                I’m not missing the point, I don’t know how is it where you live, but in many places there are human milk banks for people with real problem on breastfeeding

    • Ctri@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      doesn’t work for some mothers, through no fault of their own. not to disagree with the sentiment, just to remind that it’s not an option for everyone :)

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes, except for the time when

      • the mother have to continue to work to survive so she does not have time to breastfeed
      • the workplace does not allow the mother to pump while at work
      • the mother is too stressed or can’t feed herself properly which leads to her milk supply drying out
      • the nurse at the maternity just start giving a bottle to the crying baby rather than taking the time with the mother to initiate the milk production. Which leads to the milk supply to never really start properly
      • …

      Breastfeeding is possible if and only if the mother is well taken care of, by her family and by the society.

      The main benefit of formula is that now the society can continue to exploit women even directly after birth and the baby will still survive.

      Someone stealing formula is not someone who is too lazy to breastfeed, someone stealing formula is someone who has to struggle to survive rather than spending time bonding with her child.