“Women are smart enough to figure this out. We are not as dumb as they think. We can handle heating up milk on a stove,” so says Shell Walker of Eats on Feets.
That’s real touching, but so naive. Of course women can’t solve the milk heating conundrum. That’s why we have the state to begin with.
Last month, Walker went live on the web with Eats on Feets, a social networking site. The twist? The site is a “place for parents who need breast milk for their babies to find women willing to give them some.”
It should not come as a shock that established milk banks are joining forces with regulators to attempt to stop women from solving a standard network and distribution problem. For milk banks, there is the fear of competition. For regulators, there is the fear that acting women may realize they can function without the state. And we can’t have that. Can we?
{ 14 comments }
They have this problem with people selling unpasterized milk. The heating process changes it chemically a bit and some people prefer it fresh.
There is literally illegal underground black market milk trading going on. It would be funny if was not so true.
As I understand it, currently breast milk works much like organs. Providers can donate, but not sell, it to these banks, who then sell it for several dollars per ounce! It would seem these “banks” already enjoy tremendous regulatory assistance and are now trying to maintain their gov. provided rent by “closing loopholes”.
May we all take a moment to realize how fortunate we are that government is so unable to create laws without loopholes that at least somewhat diminish their evil.
It certainly is a good example of the FDA “protecting” the public from something it isn’t actually demanding protection from … like responsible, informed mothers.
All your breast milk are belong to us!
This is one reason that I stopped donating blood. Why do so many people donate so much while the groups taking the donations receive tremendous amounts of money?
I asked someone soliciting me for donations of bone marrow how much they would pay me for the week of sick time it would take to do this. They looked at me as if I just sautee’d up a baby right in front of them and ate it and then gave me this speech about a shortage. Maybe there wouldn’t be a shortage of blood and marrow and other life saving bodily secretions if there was a price mechanic to indicate as such. People would be lining up and down the street if someone offered up $100 for a pint of blood instead of a sticker and a glass of orange juice.
This is true. There are two places here that pay for plasma and they are always booked.
I’ll second this sentiment. I work in the product development field and once had a meeting with someone who’s whole business is selling blood processing equipment to the Red Cross… The price “charities” like the Red Cross receive for of a bag of blood is obscenely high. I want to say somewhere slightly north of $100 per pint bag. Not surprising then that they’re a leading opponent to people actually getting compensated for giving up their time, comfort, and blood. I certainly have far less sympathy for such places now when they howl about shortages of blood. They are the ones creating the shortage, and if anyone is to be held accountable for people not receiving the transfusion they need it is the Red Cross and others like them, not the individuals who they attempt to shame into donating more blood.
I can’t wait for Homeland Security to require lactating mothers to register their breasts.
The TSA is already scanning them. And probably getting ready to confiscate them. No outside liquids allowed.
You need a license for that now ?
“She understands that milk from banks is cost-prohibitive for many families; her bank, a nonprofit, charges $4.25 an ounce “
I gotta say it… Holy Cow! A baby eats about 4-6 ounces per feeding, that’s $25 a bottle! That’s insane! And it’s pasteurized to boot. Of course if I could make that kind of money selling it I would, but I’d rather give it away for free to someone who needed it, regardless of payment. In no way would i give it free to someone else to sell for highway robber prices. People who pay those kind of prices for pasteurized breastmilk would be better off buying a milk goat.
Non-profit!
The fact that Walker herself says there’s a need for regs is interesting – whatever happened to presumption of fitness and fraud?
““Women are smart enough to figure this out. We are not as dumb as they think.”
is that so? Yet they feel perfectly fine taking advantage of State-sponsored quotas, affirmative action, exclusive programs and subsidies for women and everything else, paid mostly by men’s taxes. Women think it’s just fine to have exclusive free “training wheel” State support paid mostly by men but want to feel that they are also “smart” and just as “capable.”
Comments on this entry are closed.