That's not always true. And, the overwhelming need in this instance cannot be met that way. It's just too much. Abbot makes Similac and produces off-label brands covering about 43% of the entire baby formula market. When almost half the available supply was gone, no alternative supply was ever going to catch up for the tens of millions of babies in need.

And, twins and triplets did starve in history. Infant mortality was extremely high and a lot of it had to do with poor nutrition or no access to food at all. You have only to look at famine struck areas of the world now to see how what you're claiming to be the solution simply is not.

Fact: Before the wide availability of formula, babies just died if they couldn't get or couldn't take breast milk.

My own great grandmother, during the Depression, had two separate infants starve at her breast because she couldn't produce enough milk for them and even evaporated milk was inaccessible.

You also ignore logistics and the expense of those logistics. How does the breastmilk from women who can share get to those in need? It's not like there's a national distribution system for breastmilk. It's a community distribution if there's one in place at all. There simply aren't enough lactating women in any community to make up for the loss of nearly HALF of the only sources of infant formula across the whole damn nation.