Why is There a Baby Formula Shortage?

I keep hearing there's a formula shortage. Which is terrifying. Oh, the baby formula. Yeah, I saw that recently. Where's... How is that... What's going on? What's going on there? Um... I don't know. I ain't... How the fuck do you not have enough baby formula? I'm happy they don't, first of all. What? What? And I'll tell you why. Please do. Baby formula ain't no good for babies. It's not? Not most. Most of them are not. But some women can't pump. Some women... Right, right, right. For whatever reason, they're milk ducks? Absolutely. Absolutely. And there's alternative formulas out there. Like, there's really good... Some of them are like soy based. I'm like, I don't get your child's ad. But, like, when you talk about... I don't want to name companies because that could get me illegal issues. Right. But... The formula that's on the market has a lot of toxic ingredients in it. And it ain't good for babies, right? What? What kind of toxic ingredients? I don't know. I haven't studied this stuff in years. But let people do their own research, right? Let people go and... There's a lot of people that have done this research. Let's see if we can find it. Find out what's bad about baby formula. Pull up the ingredients on... Just Google, what's bad about baby formula. Okay. You might have to use... It might be a thing. An alternative search engine. What'd you say? That would give you bad blog results. Like, that's gonna give you goofy shit that people are trying to sell stuff. You have toxic ingredients in baby formula. Can you Google that? That might work. Would that work? What are you doing over there, Jimmy? You wrestling with that microphone? But I don't know. You know, like... It's definitely better to have breast milk. Yes, absolutely. But I think for some women, that's an impossibility. Right. So then, all right, maybe you gotta have that... That formula, right? But I think a lot of women also can't afford the breast milk. The breast milk is expensive. You know, if you can't nurse, buying... Oh, you mean buying breast milk? Yeah, it's very expensive. Yeah, that stuff is very expensive. So it's hard to get alternatives, blah, blah, blah. And the thing is, there are people that are making baby formula that is organic, holistic. But because of FDA regulations, there's certain guidelines they gotta stay within, so they can't say, oh, this is safe for a newborn, right? Oh. They can technically give it to a newborn, but they can't put that on the label and say, hey, this is good for a newborn. You can get this stuff on Amazon, right? But there's organic, like, good baby formula out there. So they can't call it baby formula? Is that what it is? Yeah. Well... What do they call it? It's like... They market it towards, like, more toddlers. Huh. So, like, it's like... I wanna say 6 to 12 months, or 12 months to 24 months, or something like that. Yeah. I just had a baby, so that's why I was, like, all in it. Oh, here it is. Some of America's biggest manufacturers, Baby Food, have not been adequately testing and removing products with dangerous levels of heavy metals, according to new U.S. Congressional Report. This is all part of an ongoing battle to make Baby Food safe. The new report says Gerber and Beech Nut didn't properly test and remove these products while Sprout Foods, Incorporated, Walmart's Parent Choice, and Plum Organics were relaxed in their efforts. Arsenic-led cadmium and mercury were found in rice cereals, sweet potato purees, juices, and sweet snack puffs, according to a previous report from the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Committee on Oversight. At the time, the company's nature sells Happy Family Organics and Happy Baby Products. Beech Nut, Hain, Earth's Best Organic, and Gerber agreed to the Subcommittee's previous request for investigation. The Subcommittee also reached out to Walmart, Campbell, and Sprout Organic Foods, which did not allow the investigation. Those companies later began cooperating. Yeah, that's what I was talking about. So there's toxic baby food lawsuit cases for parents at the bottom there. Interesting. Yeah. So then you see the ADHD autism situation popping up because of the heavy metals, neurotoxins. Right. For parents who have bought food from any of the brands and have children with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, both autism and ADHD have been associated with toxic metals. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So when I saw that, I saw this story pop up, so in the back of my mind, I'm like, good. Right? It's like in some ways it's bad because the baby needs something, right? It needs something. Right. But in another way, I'm just like, you know, it's a catch-22. Why is there a shortage? Why is there a baby food shortage? Yeah. I thought it was because of... Is it Russia? Is it the Putin price hike? I thought it was because the... Here it goes. Wow. Look at that. 40% of baby food formula out of stock. Thread on infant formula shortage situation, which feels like a slow-moving train wreck. First, retail stock has been rocky for months. It was already bad over the holidays. Then a big recall plus plant shutdown in February made it worse. Also, it was a plant shutdown. Oh, that's right, because the plants have been burning down. You saw that? Yeah, I did. That was like a food production plant. The issue process of plants. Yeah. Why does that happen? Man, it's a good time to be a conspiracy theorist. It's a great time. Because, you know, you got a lot of fucking ammunition. Yeah. I tend not to look into this stuff probably because it gives me anxiety. Yeah, it gives me anxiety, too. That's why I need weed. Mark Tyson weed. Say Abbott nutrition recalled with the contamination after... I'll hit it. That's the Mike Tyson weed. Oh, man. It's dangerous. Oh, boy. Possible contamination. Several infants got sick and two died. Whoa. Abbott nutrition recalled and withheld some of its baby food product due to concerns about possible contamination. Fuck. All this stuff is terrifying, man. Just when you hear us talk about, you know, about food shortages, to keep saying food shortages are coming and people are saying food shortages are coming, I'm like, do something. How do you know it's coming? Where's the food coming from?