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The biggest producers of baby formula on the planet have been pushing their products relentlessly to consumers. And now that a devastating disease has been linked to their products in premature babies, the public is finally starting to pay attention. Mike Papantonio is joined by attorney Sara Papantonio to explain what’s happening.

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The biggest producers of baby formula on the planet have been pushing their products relentlessly to consumers and now that it's been a devastating disease that's been linked to their products in premature babies, the public's finally starting to pay attention. Attorney Sara Papantonio joins me to talk about what's happened. Sara, this, this story is so bothersome because we understand somewhere in the range of could be 3000 preemie babies dying every year because of this product. Lay, lay the story out for me, if you would.
So this is a story about the, the baby formula industry. For decades now, what we've seen is a dramatic increase in the rate that children and, and, and infants are for, fed formula and a dramatic decrease in infants that are fed breast milk. And that's all at the hands of the formula industry. So what that comes with is when we have premature babies who are born thirty six, seven weeks or before they're being fed baby formula instead of breast milk in order to increase their growth, which is a false narrative put on by the industry. But what's happening is those premature babies aren't able to digest the enzymes within that, that formula. It's a cows milk formula. And as a result, it's causing their intestines and it's causing their organs to break down and necrotize in a disease we call necrotizing enterocolitis. So you've got a, a, a newborn baby, the most vulnerable population of infants that we could possibly have ingesting a cows milk formula and as a result, their, their organs are essentially shutting down on them and they're dying as a result.
Yeah, they, when they do the autopsies, they're finding that basically it's, it's the entire gastrointestinal system is turned into almost dust, like a film in a dust. And the agony the child goes through. Sometimes when I read this story, I, I, to me, I read a story where a nurse who used to work specialized with these children had to stop working, because she couldn't stand the screaming, the pain that the kids were going through as their dying, these, these preemie babies. So the first thing that they're introduced to in the world is this kind of suffering. The industry knew, and they have known, they wasn't it 20, it seemed like 2009 everybody really started talking about the fact they asked the industry, why are you going out there and discouraging breastfeeding? Why are you discouraging mother's milk? Well, we know now, don't we?
Right.
Because they're making so much money.
And, and that's, what's so disgusting about this story is it's suffering that these children never had to go through. You know, since as early as the 1990s, what we know is that cow's milk formulas cannot be properly digested by premature infants. But what these companies are doing instead of promoting that message and promoting safe, safer alternatives, they continue to promote their formula. They continue to run media scare tactics against mothers and families to make them fearful of breastfeeding their own children because that's, you know, when I start getting really concerned when I see a company starting to take marketing tools out of the playbook of tobacco.
Yeah.
And when I see a baby formula company taking marketing tips from a tobacco company, that's when my eyes really, really start.
Well, you, you, when you started looking at this case, I, I know the thing that was startling to me is I looked at.

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