**This has been discussed several times in the past, including posts by
yours truly, and the Archives is full of those discussions.   UNICEF was
*not* the first to use the quote.  No one has suggested an ealier author
than Gay Palmer, per my Feb 2009 post (which is as follows):

OK -- hot from Amazon.com, and in my hands, is Gabrielle Palmer's paperback
version of The Politics of Breastfeeding, London: Pandora Press (1988).
There, on [the yellowing] Page One, Paragraph One, is the following:

"If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally
balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated
disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be develiered in
quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of
their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock
market.   The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the
wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically.
Women have been producing such a miraculous susbtance, breastmilk, since the
beginning of human existence, yet they form the half of the world's people
who are the least wealthy and the least powerful."

If anyone can find this quote from someone else, from an earlier speech or
book or conference, please let all of us on Lactnet know.  It is too good a
quote to go inappropriately attributed to anyone but the original author ...
and besides, that would be a violation of Tenet 25 of our Code of Ethics to
boot

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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