I believe both milk and honey hold special places in many cultures' belief systems because they are the only human foods that don't require killing something in order to eat them. You don't have to kill bees to get honey. You don't have to kill an animal (or your mother) in order to get nourishment from her mammary glands. That's why people talk in glowing terms about "The Land of Milk and Honey" -- a place where there is plenty to eat without harming any living creature or plant. I do not believe that pointing out the benefits of breastfeeding while also condemning breast milk as being toxic is a useful way either to get more people to breastfeed OR to clean up the environment. Cleaning up the environment is impossible (in most people's view of the world) and if breast milk is contaminated, well, that's just one more reason not to breastfeed, especially when you have 'good enough' and uncontaminated formula made from cows' milk. I do believe the 'breast milk is toxic so we need to clean up the environment and meanwhile, please still breastfeed' people have good intentions, but I think the end result will be less breastfeeding, no matter how they phrase their arguments. Kathy Dettwyler _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html