The Value Of Breast Milk

Your white creamy milk butter and all is worth better health for your babies, which is priceless. So how does Euros 130/litre sound for the value of breast milk! Then there are taste tests which require part time volunteers. That's how much neonatal units in hospitals in the UK pay to milk banks. But that's not for the milk, that's for the processing costs of the milk bank that collects and pasturises it. Premature babies fed on it have better chances of surviving. That's one figure. We can also consider the number of lives lost through babies not being breastfed and the cost to our health services. Breast milk is the most locally produced natural food there is - replacement feeds require processing and transport which has an environmental impact. Mothers aren't paid to breastfeed their babies, but if they don't breastfeed, they have to pay for breastmilk substitutes, so we can think about the cost of that and the multi-billion Euro industry that has arisen and the harm that it does. It is not bad in Irish coffee either.