> Anne, I must respectfully disagree with your characterization of the > letter from a milk banking official. I do not think that you are > being > "muscled out by the big business milk bank interests." In fact, > knowing > the sort of budgets that milk banks operate on, the concept of them as > "big business" almost made me laugh. This is not about business. > This is > about safety. I thought that Carol Brussel expressed the concerns > about > your enterprise very well. It is well-intentioned but does not have > any > way of guaranteeing the safeguards that simply must be in place for > mothers, babies, families, and those who facilitate the exchange of > human > milk among all interested parties. > > Please don't disparage the hard work of milk bankers in your > disappointment, or think that their concerns about safety are somehow > business-related. As the letter notes, milk banks virtually > disappeared > from the landscape in the wake of worries about HIV, and they are only > just beginning to crawl back into consideration among many health > professionals. To have an informal system that could, however > inadvertently or undeservedly, reawaken the fears and doubts of the > 1980s > would be a tremendous disservice to the mothers and babies you'd like > to > help. I'm sorry, Mary, but her republication of her letter to the officials to whom she republished, without even having received any response from me (which she got within 5 minutes of her having sent it) make very clear what her mindset and intentions were. Given the context, it was overkill, and inappropriate (had I not responded, it might have been appropriate, but I not only responded, but took the site down within minutes). That action on her part was very clearly a declaration of legal war [and I should know - I write plenty of them myself]. *********************************************** 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