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I mean, as someone who had a newborn during that time it was pretty stressful and upsetting trying to feed them. But I can understand if you have been completely insulated from these issues in your life why you might take more issue with the authors tone.

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Well, how could the government have enforced a law requiring baby formula to be available?

Very easily. There's no baby formula shortage in the UK or EU, so why not pass emergency legislation that allows them to provide the US market and pay the EU/UK producers up front to ramp up their production until the issue is resolved.

"Make this supply-limited good available" is a problem that markets love to solve; in fact we do quite a lot of work to place constraints on many markets so that their solutions take forms with specific properties. In principle, we can relax constraints. USA baby formula at the time had very strong constraints ("nutritional labelling must take this precise form", https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_116.html) which could be relaxed.

Finding ways to have someone with functioning parts feed your baby sounds stressful and upsetting indeed, but pretending it would kill them is not "tone".

> Finding ways to have someone with functioning parts feed your baby sounds stressful and upsetting

nice to meet a fellow empath

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