What bright children to ask such a question! Their logic follows naturally from what would be in the best interest of the baby... If everyone had the best interest of the baby at heart, then every woman that could breastfeed would breastfeed and there would be enough donor milk from human mothers for the babies whose mothers had primary insuffuciency... Of course that would make the question of which mammalian milk is closest to human milk a completely a moot point... In the short run perhaps a nice unintended consequence of selling milk human milk for $3.00 a milliliter will be that it raises the perceived value of breastfeeding among the women who currently would not elect to breastfeed... As time goes on it is to be expected that the cost of human milk will go down, and eventually we will probably live to see genetically engineered human milk... It will of course lack the specific immune advantages of enteromammary immune system but that won't stop people from rationalizing the current technological installment of wet-nursing... So to my mind the time is right to start educating the public that THE most important aspect of breastfeeding is how it changes the mother..how the neurochemistry of lactation makes every mother a better mother than she would otherwise be...so that no amount of technological advancement could ever be used as a justification for taking a baby off the breast... Jen O'Quinn IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html