The baby formula shortage.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Over the last few weeks, what began as a pandemic-era quirk has spiraled into a national crisis. More than 40% of baby formula is now out of stock in the U.S., a twentyfold increase since the first half of 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | How did the dog sneak out? |
| 0:02.4 | When did that parcel vanish? |
| 0:04.8 | Who was outside last night? |
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| 0:34.7 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:40.9 | This is Tangle. |
| 1:03.9 | The place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about the baby formula shortage. |
| 1:14.2 | What it means, why it's happening, what some people think we should do. |
| 1:16.3 | Pretty interesting story, if you ask me. |
| 1:21.2 | Before we jump in, though, I do want to give a quick update from something we wrote last week. |
| 1:28.2 | In a reader question last week, somebody asked me if Republicans were really trying to ban IUDs and other birth control methods. |
| 1:33.1 | One of the people I cited was Idaho State Representative Brent Crane, who said he was going to hold hearings on banning IUDs and Plan B. One reader submitted a local interview with Crane |
| 1:38.8 | where he apparently clarified his comments. In his contacts, I felt, was worth noting, |
| 1:43.2 | so I'm just going to read you a brief |
| 1:44.5 | summary from a news article about that interview. In a Saturday interview, Crane clarified that he |
| 1:49.3 | supports contraception, including IUDs, and would not support hearings banning contraception |
| 1:54.7 | generally. Instead, he said that he has heard of safety concerns with emergency contraceptives |
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