Dens should not let the GOP control the baby formula message,

[duforsure]

They should bring up how Abbott Labs used money to buy back their own stock , did they know about plant issues.i Was this problem known about and covered up before this administration took office? FDA forced them to shut down after babies died, and. There was a whistle blower. The same thing happened to a Texas Blue Bell ice cream plant , but there wasn't only two suppliers of ice cream. Maybe look at going after monopolies in critical areas, preventing this type of situation.

[rownesheck]

1. Yeah.

What happened to making sure monopolies didn't happen in this country? It used to be a thing. Seriously, I'm really having a hard time trying to think of anything that would make me proud to be a citizen of this country.

Fuck you, Lee Greenwood. Shove that stupid song up your ass.

[Bettie]

3. The laws are still on the books, but the Reagan administration

(because it's always that fucking guy, isn't' it?) stopped enforcing them.

Thus, there is no real competition in any industry at this point. It's all consolidated to a few companies.

[Freddie]

6. Yup. St. Ronnie's still destroying the country all these years later

[Bettie]

7. Right? The really scary thing

about that whole load of fuckery is that current Republicans would declare him a far left-liberal.

That's where the Overton window is now.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. "all consolidated"

That is absolutely true. Go research industries, pick any one. Go to WIki. Read the brands, consolidations, divisions split and sold off. Shoes, power equipment, refrigeration, commodities, oil & gas, socks, clothes, bedding, food ... and on and on. Every time they buy a brand they strip it and tweak the remains for more profits. It's what MBA's do. The products deteriorate in durability and materials so consumers need to buy them more often. They have us right where they want us. They have ground out inefficiencies but made us slaves.

[Bettie]

2. Yes, this isn't a "government" problem this is

a corporations putting stock buybacks over maintaining and upgrading their manufacturing infrastructure problem.

[FloridaBlues]

4. The closer to the televised hearings the louder they get on anything

[Freddie]

5. Instead the "pro-lifers" want immigrant babies to starve

Once you’re born, you’re on your own.

[liberalla]

8. Ha! Trump's America First program is being blamed now! See this thread

posted shortly after yours for details:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216690832

Now the news needs to spread!

[mopinko]

9. i think the most despicable part is the wic thing. locked to a supplier. wtaf?

joe should fix this w an eo right fucking now. there should be no such conditions on any food program.
i think he can also sign an eo to allow canadian formula.

maybe find the smaller suppliers and get them to ramp up.

[IronLionZion]

14. Biden admin fixed it

they've lifted that WIC restriction

[LeftInTX]

16. I think the WIC thing is really old

The FDA's super strict rules don't help either. That's one reason I bring this up on mail-order abortion pill threads (Mail-order abortion pills from Aid Access come from India and can be seized at any time)

https://archive.ph/ZXn1h

FDA regulation of formula is so stringent that most of the stuff that comes out of Europe is illegal to buy here due to technicalities like labeling requirements. Nevertheless, one study found that many European formulas meet the FDA nutritional guidelines—and, in some ways, might even be better than American formula, because the European Union bans certain sugars, such as corn syrup, and requires formulas to have a higher share of lactose.

Some parents who don’t care about the FDA’s imprimatur try to circumvent regulations by ordering formula from Europe through third-party vendors. But U.S. customs agents have been known to seize shipments at the border.

U.S. policy also restricts the importation of formula that does meet FDA requirements. At high volumes, the tax on formula imports can exceed 17 percent. And under President Donald Trump, the U.S. entered into a new North American trade agreement that actively discourages formula imports from our largest trading partner, Canada.

America’s formula policy warps the industry in one more way. The Department of Agriculture has a special group called WIC—short for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children—that provides a variety of services to pregnant and breastfeeding women and their young children. It is also the largest purchaser of infant formula in the United States, awarding contracts to a small number of approved formula companies. As a result, the U.S. baby formula industry is minuscule, by design. A 2011 analysis by USDA reported that three companies accounted for practically all U.S. formula sales: Abbott, Mead Johnson, and Gerber.

Heck, I did not know that Gerber even made infant formula. It used to be only Abbott and Mead Johnson were the only brands on the shelves (1980s and 90s)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/politics/baby-formula-shortage-wic-low-income-families/index.html

[malaise]

11. K & R

Expose the corporate crooks and their small government politicians - the real baby killers

[DownriverDem]

12. They are

Also we are the Dems. It is very tiring to see folks tell the Dems what to do when they don't seem to get it is all of us.

[IronLionZion]

13. Conservatives used to think free market competition was good for consumers

but now they're all about screwing our Canadian trading partners (and other countries) without doing much to actually encourage more American production of essential items.

Babies are the latest casualty of the "pro-life" party

[certainot]

15. until dems stop ignoring rw radio the cons will ALWAYS dominate messaging. and we keep missing

golden ops, like the fact that delaware state uni in the news for racial profiling event broadcasts women's b-ball on a rw radio station!

and dems are not pointing that out hundreds of other schools like these 87 and pro sports broadcast on and support maybe a third of all rw radio station and an exodus would break the republicans only unique advantage and why they always have the last word

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