Most soybeans are genetically engineered nowadays(unless organically grown). So the problems they are now seeings may have more to do with genetic engineering than anything else. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho has written about the dangers of generating pathogens by vector mobilization and recombination. She mentions that over a period of 10 years, 6 scientists working with genetic engineering of cancer-related oncogenes at the Pasteur Institutes in France contracted cancer(New Scientist, June 18 issue, 1987, p.29) She writes at one point that, "many unrelated bacterial pathogens, causing diseases from bubonic plague to tree blight, are now found to share an entire set of genes for invading host cells, which have almost certainly spread by horizontal gene transfer." Genetic engineering has been going on for some-time and few people realize that biotech companies started forming in the 70's to use this technology for profits. Lest one think that going to cow's milk formula is the answer, I would suggest rethinking that option. Cow's milk formula is also being genetically engineered. So of course the answer is human milk banking. But, of course, the powers that be aren't going to let that happen in any big way because there is money to be made in selling expensive bioengineered products(especially easy when the general public has been purposefully kept ignorant). Valerie *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html