Here are some addresses for people to target with letters about the USDA
ordered WIC funding cuts for donor milk to poor, sick, premature infants.
Stress these points:

-- protest the policy change that prohibits WIC from reimbursing milk
banks for processing fees
-- stress the record of safety of pasteurized, screened donor human milk
from a milk bank
-- stress the nutritional superiority of human milk over the alternative
--point out that, especially for premature and ill babies, who make up the
vast majority of milk bank clients, that artificial formula brings higher
risk of disease and death


Try to sound powerful and not hysterical.


Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
US Department of Agriculture
14th Street and Independence Avenue SW
Washington, DC  20250
202/720-2791

and

Under Secretary Shirley Watkins
Food Nutrition and Consumer Services
US Department of Agriculture
Alexandria, VA  22302
703/305-2286

The Honorable Bill Clinton
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500


Barbara Wilson-Clay, BSEd, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates, Austin, Texas
http://www.lactnews.com

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