<<There are other places in the world for which an outcry against
detectible levels of pollutants in milk would cause a change in
industry because breastmilk is a given and untouchable; this is not
such a place.>>

Well, I guess maybe it's not. Unfortunately. (All of you Lactnetters who
do live in such places, I envy you!) And Michelle's car seat analogy makes
sense to me, and I agree that we -- I'm talking as a member of the general
American public here -- often get fixated on a single tree instead of the
forest.

But I hate the idea of self-censorship, of feeling that we can't "trust"
the general public with certain information. And it's hard for me to
understand how the average NY Times reader could read an article about
toxins in breastmilk and think it implies that formula therefore must be
safe -- on the contrary, I would think the reader would then be even more
concerned about the toxins in all the water formula is mixed with. But
then, I don't understand how anyone could choose formula over
breastfeeding in the first place. :)

Jennifer Herrin, RN, IBCLC
Heidelberg, Germany

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