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Bill Gates Pushes Lab Grown "Human Milk"

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notidentifying22 · 17/07/2022 19:29

Gates' company BIOMILQ is using biotechnology to create artificial breast milk for babies. This is done by using mammary cells placed in a flask. Biomilk claims that the formula “recreates conditions similar to the breast.”

This movement is part of the push that erases women as mothers and seeks to propagate the idea that breastmilk and "Biomilk" are interchangeable. This school of thought disregards a crucial part of infant feeding for mothers: the benefits accrued from actually nursing at the breast. Besides the fact that once again we have a "new and improved" way to feed babies which feeds the bottom line of multinational corporations, we denigrate all that breastfeeding means to women and babies. Again, just like in the 1950's men are telling women they have something better for babies.

As we have seen in infant formula shortages, it makes our very survival as a species dependent on the good will of a large multi national corporation with profit, not help, as its motive. And it opens the door a little more to transhumanism.

Bill Gates Pushes Lab-Grown Human Milk Amid Infant Formula Shortages

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MangyInseam · 17/07/2022 20:22

This kind of tech has some significant benefits. A better breast milk substitute is only going to be better for infants who don't have access to the real thing. Especially premature infants.

It's the underlying idea that replacing real biological organisms with technology is going to be a win that's at worrying. You see the same thing where these same people are pushing for stuff like lab grown meat or labs that "farm" algae in jars as a better way to produce human food. All nicely centralized and capitalized too.

But in terms of child rearing, it's worth pointing out I think, because it is likely to be controversial, that to some extent this is part and parcel of the whole idea that it is better if we can externalize and commercialize even the most basic functions of human family life. So we can all be workers. It plays very much into the idea that if we can externalize these functions of women's bodies, and make that normative, we can avoid really considering in a serious way whether a model of society which sees us all as workers is one that really makes room for the fact that we are a biologically reproducing species with different reproductive roles.

achillestoes · 17/07/2022 19:31

You wouldn’t, though, would you? 😂