Badass Breastfeeding Podcast

The impact of breastfeeding on the environment

April 04, 2022 Dianne Cassidy & Abby Theuring Season 1 Episode 242
Badass Breastfeeding Podcast
The impact of breastfeeding on the environment
Show Notes

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