It is analogous to free speech if you believe that companies have the
same rights as individuals. The American system of law does believe
that. Other systems don't. I'm  not a lawyer, so I don't understand all
the implications of that, but I know that it puts businesses at a big
advantage in many areas, money and free speech being two of them. Can
anyone shed any more light on this issue?

I do believe, as Jo-Anne said, that, over all, people are smart enough
to get it right, given half a chance. However, I'm not sure that the
current climate of advertising and social pressure gives them half a
chance. The same was true about smoking when I was a child and that has
changed, so I'm hopeful about bfing,

Naomi Bar-Yam
On Sunday, Dec 28, 2003, at 00:01 US/Eastern, Automatic digest
processor wrote:

> To me, it is analogous to the freedom of speech issue.
--------------------------------
Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
[log in to unmask]

Researcher, Writer, Educator
in Maternal and Child Health
--------------------------------

             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html