re: Once the Bread Basket of the World, The United States Now Needs International Food Relief:

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Yes, but I don’t blame him for things that aren’t his doing.

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Look here you little anal polyp, protectionist trade policies and plant shutdowns certainly have contributed to the crisis but the main contributor to the formula shortage is the redistributive policies of the Welfare State and COVID-1984 lockdown related logistical issues which Joe Biden as a matter of course most certainly supported.

WIC's promotion of infant formula in the United States: Currently, WIC acts in a way that benefits commercial enterprises at the expense of infants. The government should not risk infants' health in order to support commercial enterprises.


The United States' Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) distributes about half the infant formula used in the United States at no cost to the families. This is a matter of concern because it is known that feeding with infant formula results in worse health outcomes for infants than breastfeeding.

Discussion

The evidence that is available indicates that the WIC program has the effect of promoting the use of infant formula, thus placing infants at higher risk. Moreover, the program violates the widely accepted principles that have been set out in the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and in the human right to adequate food.

Summary

There is no good reason for an agency of government to distribute large quantities of free infant formula. It is recommended that the large-scale distribution of free infant formula by the WIC program should be phased out.