I can't believe it's not breastmilk

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🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Breastmilk. Research says it’s the best, so why did the U.S. threaten to shut down a breastfeeding proposal at the World Health Assembly? Vox’s Julia Belluz says it all boils down to baby formula, the $70 billion industry lurking in the shadows. ******************************************* Are you pregnant? Have you ever been? Vox wants to provide more explainers on women's health and would love your help. You can fill out the survey here: http://bit.ly/voxpregnancy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey.
0:04.6	Amazing.
0:05.6	It's like you expect me to call you to tell you that Uber is adding a bunch of new features
0:09.0	that are designed to take the stress out of your pickup and that you can find out all
0:12.8	of the ways Uber is moving forward and see the improvements they're making to their app
0:16.5	at uber.com slash moving forward.
0:18.7	Yeah.
0:19.7	It's almost as if we've done this before.
0:30.3	I'm a scientist, but I can guarantee you none of us would be here if it weren't for
0:33.7	breastfeeding.
0:34.7	Like, even if you weren't personally breastfed, all of your ancestors were.
0:40.0	Let's just get this out of the way.
0:41.5	Breast milk is good.
0:42.8	Yeah, this is like the gold standard for babies and there's massive consensus on this among
0:49.0	medical organizations in the scientific community.
0:52.4	And only in the last 100 years have we seen this massive evolutionary shift to most babies
0:58.6	being fed baby formula instead.
1:02.2	This evolutionary shift to baby formula strangely became a thing the entire world was talking
1:07.3	about for a second this week and it all goes back to a meeting in Geneva.
1:12.1	It happened this past May.
1:14.4	A new report says US delegates to the World Health Organization pushed to scrap a resolution
1:19.2	meant to encourage breastfeeding in underdeveloped countries.
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