EMERGING COMPETITORS WITH THE BOVINE MILK: :NEW SUPER-FOOD!
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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's their "humba-humba"- voice……
"protect our rights: > humba-- humba---”....
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 There is possibility of Sick mothers and crippled or deformed babies in the poor countries in coming future.
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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