The Sour, True History Behind The Baby Formula Shortage
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
New parents looking for baby formula are likely to find empty shelves these days! Everyone’s throwing blame for the shortage, which is causing infant deaths and illness. But for Black parents, baby formula issues have a long, troubling history.
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| 0:27.8 | slash UK slash AI for people. Annie Mae Foltz got attention wherever she went in her small |
| 0:36.4 | rural community. Aside from being |
| 0:38.9 | tall and hard of hearing, she was about to do something hardly anyone heard of in the 1940s. |
| 0:46.7 | Give birth to quadruplets. This is two-minute black history. What You Didn't Learn in |
| 0:53.0 | School. |
| 1:03.0 | Annie Mae Foltz dragged herself into the emergency room. |
| 1:06.0 | She was hard of hearing and unable to speak, but it was clear she needed help. |
| 1:10.0 | However, it was definitely |
| 1:11.9 | not the kind she was about to get this time. Folt's four girls were born healthy and instantly |
| 1:18.7 | became famous, but the white doctor who delivered them wanted fame for himself. |
| 1:46.3 | He named the girls and experimented on them, injecting the infants with dangerously high levels of vitamin C. But he wasn't done trying to play God with the Fultz family. He signed a baby formula |
| 1:53.7 | endorsement deal with PetMilk on Fultz's behalf. PetMilk launched a campaign that convinced |
| 2:00.1 | black mothers their formula was superior to breast milk and made record-breaking profits. |
| 2:05.6 | Their mother, Annie Mae, remained in poverty. Eventually, the doctor took custody of the girls so he could continue benefiting from their fame. |
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