>The reason that breast milk is used to measure toxins is that it is a
lot cheaper and easier to collect than body fat, and gives a convenient
measure of what is just in everyone's fat tissue.  This is the message
we should give to the public.<

wouldn't it be pretty much as easy to collect semen?  Has anyone heard of
this happening?  Semen collection might also give a picture of toxic body
burden across a wider age range than collecting breast milk.

However, isn't one reason for collecting breast milk becasue the breastfed
baby is ther person at the top of the human food chain?  This was a strong
message I absorbed from Sandra Steingraber's book 'Having Faith'.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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