Dear Friends:
I see patenting and 'owning' human milk components as another example of
toxic capitalism, where the health of the corporation is more important than
the health of the individual.
For a lovely and scary bit of history, try:
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/4935
Abraham Lincoln is quoted in this essay, over 140 years ago:
"President Abraham Lincoln, in a letter written to a Col. William Elkins on
November 21, 1864, wrote, "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that
unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations
have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and
the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands
and the Republic is destroyed."
On May 10, 1886, the United States Supreme Court ruled, "The defendant
Corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a
State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws."
In other words, corporations were given the same rights as individuals.
Because corporations have more resources than any individual, you and I and
human milk are of lesser stature in the political arena and everything attached
to it.
This is the crux of our problem. Where is the check and balance to a
corporation? Obviously, there are no limits, if a company can own a component and
gene to produce a human milk element.....
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative
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