At 06:48 PM 3/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Barbara, this is extremely bad news, and reprehensible indeed. To whom
>should letters be addressed?
>
>The image of a bunch of power mongers standing on the bodies of the infants
>that suffer due to lack of proper nutrition is indeed accurate.  Power and
>money are powerful lures.

Kathleen,  I did speak to Mary Rose Tully (President of the Human Milk
Banking Association of North America (HMBANA).  If you have not already
sent a letter, she and I think that you should hang onto your letters (and
your righteous indignation) because we will need them, but for the moment
Mary Rose is not quite ready for you to send the letters.  We are calling
all over DC today to see if we can find out more information.  We'll update
you later.  But if you've sent letters already, that's fine, too...it will
be OK for USDA to start bracing for the storm ;).

Again, we don't need to forward that ugly USDA press release any further
than it's already been.

Andrea Morgan
Executive Director, Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin
Vice President, Human Milk Banking Association of North America

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