Lara and others, I'd been sitting on that post for nearly two months trying to decide if I should put it up or not. Since I've always pushed the HMBANA milk banks at The Lactivist (I'm a donor myself) I get frequent emails from moms looking to donate milk. In the last three months I've been had a ton of emails from moms that have cleared the screening process, received their starter packets and were shocked to discover that the IBMP is associated with Prolacta. These moms email me asking if they are now obligated to send their milk since Prolacta has shipped them pumps and bottles. I've spent about two months digging up quotes and data from their site and from various news articles as well as from emails that my readers have exchanged with Prolacta. I've tried to contact them many times myself, but they will not return my emails. (Though it would only take a quick Google of my site to see that I've already spoken out against them, so I'm not surprised they would ignore me.) When I saw the Mothering email this morning, I decided to go ahead and push it live. I think that the donor moms are owed some serious explanations in all this. Based on my research, Prolacta is either severely misrepresenting things in their public statements, or they are sitting on a gold mine of milk that was donated by women thinking that their milk would go straight to needy babies in Africa. I do hope that LACTnetters will join me in demanding a public response from Prolacta on this issue. To think that they could be sitting on $13 million dollars worth of breast milk because of what many would dub deceptive marketing practices? It makes me ill. Jennifer Laycock The Lactivist Blog http://thelactivist.blogspot.com *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]