Back Off Bobbie: Making Strides in Eliminating Predatory Formula Marketing with Andrea Haskins

Andrea Haskins with Radical Moms Union is back on the show to get more specific about why predatory formula marketing is destroying breastfeeding relationships & undermining public health, specifically in the United States. Andrea gives us action items to disrupt Bobbie in their harmful marketing and joining the mission to preserve the mother-baby dyad.

In this episode:

• How corporations attach breastfeeding relationships
• The history of formula marketing: Is it even legal?
• Bobbie’s manipulative & predatory formula marketing strategies
• Do formula & pumping actually offer more freedom & autonomy?
• Radical Moms Union disrupting Bobbie Zoom meetings
• Stop arguing in comments and create actual change: how to join the mission

Show References:

• Similac Commercial: The Sisterhood of Motherhood
• The history of formula marketing: https://www.subscribepage.com/t2o5e2
• Join the next Radical Moms Union Zoom call on 5/22: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M1LxQfsQSSqj-ATIhuANig
• Radical Moms Union substack explores themes like motherhood, pregnancy birth and breastfeeding and they're place in culture and social media: https://radicalmomsunion.substack.com/
• Listen to At The Breast Podcast with Claire Rodriguez & Caitlin Savage

Sponsor Info:

• Butcher Box | http://rwrd.io/bxy895l?c
• Heart & Soil Supplements | https://shop.heartandsoil.co/discount/AFFILIATE10?rfsn=7254256.3f378b&redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall

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• @instinctualmothering on Instagram
• @radical_moms_union on Instagram

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