After reading the article, I am struck by several thoughts and feel the need 
to comment.  There has been a recent spat of articles on sharing breastmilk 
(USA), wet nursing (China), etc.  Why? Most of the media in the USA would not be 
classified as free and independent of industry/government imput.  Nor would I 
believe that China has a free and independent media.

All these articles state in some form that human milk is wonderful, "liquid 
gold."  In China this wet nursing business (run by a man or men) was stopped 
due to public pressure because  women were against it--did not want their 
breasts sold as commodities.  To be a wet nurse the company had strict guidelines, 
"women were all good-looking, aged between 25-30, had passed rigorous health 
tests..."  After reading the article, the wet nursing business in China seemed 
more like the company that was pimping breastfeeding than a service for 
infants.  At the end of the article the owner of the business gets a phone call from 
a national women's mag asking if 20 of his "charges" would pose topless for a 
cover photo.  The company's name is Bang Bang.  As someone who doesn't live in 
China or know much about it, how can I know whether this story is true or 
not?  I must trust that  the media is presenting a true story and that the 
translation into English was accurate.

Ownership of human milk components and its gene constructs are in the hands 
of multinational corporations and the US Department of Health.   The purpose of 
these articles is in my opinion is to sway the general population against any 
private dealings in human milk.  Is this for safety's sake?  Is this support 
of women's liberation because breasts/human milk should not be made into 
commodities?  Or is this discouragement of private sharing of human milk or 
wet-nursing because the ownership of human milk components and the gene constructs 
resides with the US Department of Health and multi-national corporations?  Thus 
private arrangements infringe upon the monopolies of the State and the our 
multi-national corporations?  
Valerie W. McClain

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