An Oregon-based company has backed away from a plan to purchase breast milk from Detroit mothers… Read more at DetroitNews.com.
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Critics Fear This Breastfeeding Initiative Could Exploit Black Mothers, Huffington Post
“If you’re looking for a place for excess milk, why would you come to the community that has the lowest breastfeeding rate?” Read more at HuffingtonPost.com.
Read MoreInviting African-American Mothers to Sell Their Breast Milk, and Profiting, NewYorkTimes.com
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? Read more at http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com.
Read MoreGetting More Black Women to Breastfeed by Example, BET 2012
How Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association and Table for Two are encouraging more African-American women to breastfeed. Read more at Bet.com
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