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"Valerie W, McClain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 27 Jan 2004 05:01:24 EST
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Nikki you wrote, "A campaign that focuses on the risks of NOT breastfeeding
may go far to help the general public understand better about the importance of
breastfeeding, and dispel the notion that human milk is magic fairy dust,
guranteed to make every baby healthy."

I am very much amazed by this statement.  While the infant formula and drug
industries have quietly and rapidly claimed the components of human milk as
their very own, and patented the "magic" of breastmilk;  the breastfeeding
community is going to have an ad campaign to dispel the notion that human milk is
magic fairy dust.  It seems to me that this concept plays right into the hands
of our very smart and ever-so clever competitors.  It's science turned on its
head.  The science principle  that the infant formula and drug industries use
is that a human protein made in any mammary gland (cow, goat, rabbit, mouse--oh
yes even a human mammary gland) is the cure for various diseases.  The
science breastfeeding advocates believe is that breastfeeding/breastmilk  is no
guarantee of infant health. I really have come to appreciate and admire the
amazing salesmanship of the infant formula and drug industry.  Make the competitor
doubt the worth of its own product, while imitating and owning a piece of the
competitor's property.  What is science and what is folly?  Breastfeeding
advocates think they have the science and the reality but who holds the keys to
that door?  Who owns science?  Certainly not the public and certainly not
breastfeeding advocates. As for me, I am making a claim on the property of magic
fairy dust, otherwise known as breastfeeding/human milk.  Since the infant formula
and drug industries think its components are the cure for disease and
illness, I think I would be remiss not to accept the same science.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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