What bright children to ask such a question!
Their logic follows naturally from what would be
in the best interest of the baby...

If everyone had the best interest of the baby at heart,
then every woman that could breastfeed would breastfeed
and there would be enough donor milk from human mothers 
for the babies whose mothers had primary insuffuciency...

Of course that would make the question
of which mammalian milk is closest to human milk
a completely a moot point...

In the short run perhaps a nice unintended consequence
of selling milk human milk for $3.00 a milliliter will be 
that it raises the perceived value of breastfeeding among the
women who currently would not elect to breastfeed...

As time goes on it is to be expected that
the cost of human milk will go down,
and eventually we will probably live to see
genetically engineered human milk...
It will of course lack the specific immune 
advantages of enteromammary immune system
but that won't stop people from rationalizing 
the current technological installment of wet-nursing...

So to my mind the time is right to start educating the public
that THE most important aspect of breastfeeding is
how it changes the mother..how the neurochemistry 
of lactation makes every mother a better mother than
she would otherwise be...so that no amount of technological
advancement could ever be used as a justification 
for taking a baby off the breast...

Jen O'Quinn IBCLC

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