1/15/2015

$7.00 an ounce breast milk encourages low income mothers to breastfeed?

 http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/inviting-african-american-mothers-to-sell-their-breast-milk-and-profiting/?_r=0


What is a for-profit company with no African-American employees, no African-American board members and no meaningful connections to African-American mothers doing starting a campaign targeting low-income African-American mothers in Detroit to sell their breast milk under the promise of economic empowerment? That’s a question that deserves an answer, 
The Mothers Milk Cooperative, pays approved members who have been screened and have completed blood testing $1 an ounce for their milk...and sells it to hospitals for about $7 an ounce — a 600 percent markup.


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