Marsha writes:
 "We really shouldn't be arguing over this.
We all agree on it.  Really! "
I must reply that we do not all agree.  If it is possible to patent human
milk components, then that calls into question the entire system of seeking,
approving, profiting from, and "respecting" patents.  I remember how, about 10 to
15 years ago, I opened LLL meetings about the benefits of breastfeeding by
reading a paragraph from Gabrielle Palmer's The Politics of Breastfeeding.  It is
in the beginning of Chapter 1, "Why Breastfeeding is Political." It talks
about a wonderful substance that prevents and cures disease, provides nutrition,
etc, and about how if this substance were discovered and marketed, how the
inventors would become heroes and millionaires.  About how this is the miracle
and wonder of human milk and its provision by women to their babies.  Well, I,
for one, will not respect a system that has found a way to "own" and market
this "substance."
Patricia Sergi-Swinehart, MSN, ARNP,BC, IBCLC

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