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re: Infant Children Hospitalized Due to Baby Formula Shortage
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:20 am to goofball
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:20 am to goofball
the frustrating thing is that this has been out there for months now. Costco has been limiting how many you can buy for some time.
Media went on an absolute blitz over the last week and caused a ton of panic buying.
Media went on an absolute blitz over the last week and caused a ton of panic buying.
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Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:24 am to Dire Wolf
CNBC: "Bill Gates' climate-change investment firm bets on lab-produced breast milk"
Now, the pipeline of alt-food companies includes Biomilq, a North Carolina-based start-up that's targeting infant nutrition by attempting to reproduce mother's breast milk in a lab.
While that may seem like a moon shot, Biomilq has just earned the backing of the world's top investors, raising $3.5 million in Series A funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Bill Gates' investment firm focused on climate change.
Breakthough Ventures' investing coalition includes Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Masayoshi Son, Jack Ma, Michael Bloomberg and Marc Benioff.
Biomilq co-founder and CEO Michelle Egger is a food scientist who worked on the Larabar at General Mills before moving onto business school and a stint at the Gates Foundation. She and her co-founder, CSO Leila Strickland, hope that the breast milk produced by Biomilq from culturing mammary epithelial cells will help reduce the carbon footprint from the global infant formula market, which Fortune Business Insights says will surpass $103 billion by 2026. The top infant formula manufacturers include Abbott Labs, Danone and Nestle.
"Right now, by the estimations we have been able to make, at least 10% of the dairy market globally ends up in infant formula," Eggers said. "That means per-infant-fed formula in the U.S., 5,700 metric tons of CO2 are produced, and 4,300 gallons of freshwater are consumed each year to feed a child. Parents want to do what's best for their kids but shouldn't have to decide between feeding their children and protecting the planet."
"We can provide better nutrition for the 84% of babies in the U.S. who are switched to formula either partially or exclusively in the first six months of life and reduce the impacts of animal agriculture on our Earth," Strickland said.
Now, the pipeline of alt-food companies includes Biomilq, a North Carolina-based start-up that's targeting infant nutrition by attempting to reproduce mother's breast milk in a lab.
While that may seem like a moon shot, Biomilq has just earned the backing of the world's top investors, raising $3.5 million in Series A funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Bill Gates' investment firm focused on climate change.
Breakthough Ventures' investing coalition includes Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Masayoshi Son, Jack Ma, Michael Bloomberg and Marc Benioff.
Biomilq co-founder and CEO Michelle Egger is a food scientist who worked on the Larabar at General Mills before moving onto business school and a stint at the Gates Foundation. She and her co-founder, CSO Leila Strickland, hope that the breast milk produced by Biomilq from culturing mammary epithelial cells will help reduce the carbon footprint from the global infant formula market, which Fortune Business Insights says will surpass $103 billion by 2026. The top infant formula manufacturers include Abbott Labs, Danone and Nestle.
"Right now, by the estimations we have been able to make, at least 10% of the dairy market globally ends up in infant formula," Eggers said. "That means per-infant-fed formula in the U.S., 5,700 metric tons of CO2 are produced, and 4,300 gallons of freshwater are consumed each year to feed a child. Parents want to do what's best for their kids but shouldn't have to decide between feeding their children and protecting the planet."
"We can provide better nutrition for the 84% of babies in the U.S. who are switched to formula either partially or exclusively in the first six months of life and reduce the impacts of animal agriculture on our Earth," Strickland said.
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 10:25 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:25 am to Dire Wolf
The frustrating thing is that it's happening at all-the fact that it's because of bureaucratic BS is infuriating.
The Left's War on Babies wages on.
The Left's War on Babies wages on.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 12:42 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:
Media went on an absolute blitz over the last week and caused a ton of panic buying.
They're every bit of complicit in this as the Democrats. Same with COVID. Hell, pretty much every panic scenario for the past 50 years has been caused by Democrat-run media stoking the flames.
The media simply must be reigned in.
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