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Badass Breastfeeding Podcast

Breastfeeding and its impact on the environment.  

What does this even mean??

If you care about climate change, global warming and the environment, don’t miss this episode.

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Things we talked about:

The impact of breastfeeding on the environment [6:12]

Is it individual choices or big corporations? [8:00]

Breastfeeding is the shortest food chain [9:05]

Toddler formula (is this really necessary) [10:10]

What is the greenhouse effect? [12:02]

What goes into making formula? [16:15]

Stats from the UK [21:14]

2/3 of babies in the world are fed formula [24:36]

Sterilization [35:44]

Our house is on fire! [38:05]

*This Episode is sponsored by Motherfigure and Original Sprout

Links to information we discussed or episodes you should check out!

http://resource-centre-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sc_fhi_solutions_alivethrive_breastfeeding_and_food_systems_brief.pdf

https://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2016/breastfeeding_brief.pdf

https://internationalbreastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13006-019-0243-8

https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/environmental-cost-of-formula-milk-should-be-a-matter-of-global-concern/

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/

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https://diannecassidyconsulting.com/milklytheblog/

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https://www.buzzsprout.com/1755123/8400508

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Music we use~

Music: "Levels of Greatness" from "We Used to Paint Stars in the Sky (2012)" courtesy of Scott Holmes at freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott Holmes