Pace University DigitalCommons@Pace Pace Law Faculty Publications School of Law Winter 2009 Marketing Mothers' Milk: The Commodification of Breastfeeding and the New Markets for Breast Milk and Infant Formula Linda C. Fentiman Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty Part of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Commons, Food and Drug Law Commons, Health Law and Policy Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Gender Commons, Law and Society Commons, Medical Jurisprudence Commons, Public Law and Legal Theory Commons, and the Science and Technology Law Commons Recommended Citation Linda C. Fentiman, Marketing Mothers' Milk: The Commodification of Breastfeeding and the New Markets for Breast Milk and Infant Formula, 10 Nev. L.J. 29 (2009), http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/ 566/. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at DigitalCommons@Pace. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pace Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Pace. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. MARKETING MOTHERS' MILK: THE COMMODIFICATION OF BREASTFEEDING AND THE NEW MARKETS FOR BREAST MILK AND INFANT FORMULA© Linda C. Fentiman* "You wouldn't take risks before your baby's born. [On screen text as a very pregnant African American woman rides a gyrating mechanical bull. After the woman is thrown off the bull] Why start after? Breastfeed exclusively for 6 months. "1 "The debate about breast-feeding takes place without any reference to its actual context in women's lives. [W]hen people say that breast-feeding is 'free,' I want to hit them with a two-by-four.