Lesley Frank is Canada Research Chair in Food, Health, and Social Justice at Acadia University.
While infant food supply is made up of two streams – commercial formula and non-commercial breastfeeding – we know that among the 91 per cent of Canadian mothers who initiate breastfeeding, only about one-third breastfeed exclusively for six months, meaning that most infants rely on formula to varying extents. Milk banks are few and far between in Canada, and this milk is mostly limited for use by fragile infants for whom it is classified as medicine.
The commercial formula market poses problems for infant food security too. Infant formulas constitute one of the fastest-growing food markets globally, yet the industry is monopolized by a small number of international corporations . Canada is 100 per cent reliant on imports from those companies.
annhui Also Lack of Quality planning
Chinese hoarding again like they did to Australian babies, and with the good PPE?
The problem is capitalism
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