The Underground Breast Milk Market: What No One Is Talking About
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The Underground Breast Milk Market: What No One Is Talking About
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In this episode, we dig into the exploding trend of breast-milk sharing—an underground practice driven by desperation, inequity, and a system that leaves new mothers to fend for themselves. We trace how social pressure, economic strain, and impossible postpartum expectations push parents to seek milk from strangers online, often without any medical screening or safety oversight.
We talk openly about the real risks: contamination, harmful substances, and the absence of public health protections. But the larger question is the one no one wants to touch—why do women have to rely on unregulated networks in the first place? This episode pulls back the curtain on a growing public health crisis and asks what it would take to build a society that actually cares for mothers and infants.
Hosted by:
Tony Chin-Quee: @wheyouat
Frances Mei Hardin: @francesmeimd
Produced by: The Hippocratic Collective