EMERGING COMPETITORS WITH THE
BOVINE MILK: :NEW SUPER-FOOD!
Along with some amazing benefits and boons 21
st century hosted us also a plethora of weird and shocking news: the news of an
emerging billion-dollar business which is not only unimaginable but ruthlessly unethical. I came to know by
reading the article “The new business of breast-feeding” by C.Jung.
The electric breast-pump machine was a boon to the working
new mothers who preserved in bottles or in ice-trays in the refrigerator for their
own babies. But now many new mothers who
have excess breast-milk which their babies do not need to consume, they sell it
at $1-$ 3 per ounce on the sites like onlythebreast.com.
Also some companies come directly to moms to collect and
make it more nutritious by adding supplements…a new super-food!!
Imagine!
Very soon we will see that spick and span hygienic buildings
where new moms with excess breast-milk ,sitting in front of electric pump-machine
in a row of cubicle for each ,like any
corporate office ,during their 3-months post
maternity leave.
Outside the building, truck of some big company will be seen waiting ,with queer poster of human milk
instead of the picture of “horizon” or
Brown-cow” etc, etc.
Like a
cartoonist I imagine to sketch some
bully rebel herd of cows standing aggressively blocking the entrance-gate of the “Human-Milk” building in protest of
their emerging rivals………….with the
slogan' "humba-humba…….protect our rights”....
In 2013
Affordable Care Act was reformed and intertwined with the Insurance companies
to cover the cost of breast-pumps and as
Medela ,a leading manufacturer in the US stepped in, caused wide-spread use of pumps which in turn
fuels the secondary market for human-milk.
So long breastfeeding has remained an integral bond between mother
and child exclusively, far from the market of raising profit . In US law and
order is in control of government and people are health-conscious.
But what about the women of third-world poor
countries where average masses are ignorant and flaws of laws are rampant
to sweep over the” so-called law- and –order ”of the country? The new moms of poor countries will be
pathetically exploited as
resourceful commodities. Like buffaloes, goats and cows they will be
given injection to produce excess breast-milk to raise profit. There may be
massive health-hazard to the new moms and future siblings of the new-born
babies The poor countries Will be full
of Sick mothers and crippled or deformed
babies.
In this globalization age
no profitable business will be confined in its place of origin.
It is bound to spread globally. Before it happens, I
appeal,(but where?),yes, to the alter of mass-god ,to raise voice in
protest against it on the ground of
global ethics.
There should be some Global Ethics which will hold the power
to control and condemn each and every business, and specially with vigil eye on any
profitable Big- Business.
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Very strong point. Specially the point about exploitation of women in 3rd world countries.
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