This is the latest article I could find regarding the MO Cell Line of
John Moore 
that Valerie McClain referred to when I remembered this legal case and
also posted 
about women being the Wet Nurse for the formula/pharmaceutical industry.
It is 
just a matter of time before something special is found in one woman’s
milk,
such as a particular nutrient or antibody that will be restricted in
ownership.  
Any way to make money, and it will be done.
Judy Ritchie

The Thoughts of A Patented Man
by the Berkeley Ecology Center
How does it feel to be patented? To learn, all of a sudden, I was just a
piece of material?... There was a sense of betrayal.... I mean they
owned a part of me that 
I could never recover." 
--John Moore

Those are the words of John Moore, the subject of US Patent No.
4,438,032. When the US applied for a patent on the cell line of a Guaymi
Indian woman and then on cell lines from indigenous people in Papua New
Guinea and the Solomon Islands, reporters remembered John Moore. His was
one of the cases that eased the way for the patenting of human material.
Beth Burrows

http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=336&jour
nalID=57

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