I am rather baffled that someone feels that my recent post on the book, Our Stolen Future was off-topic. I happen to believe that part of being a breastfeeding advocate/lactation consultant is promotion of breastfeeding. This means one needs to be aware of what various groups in you locality/nationally/internationally are saying about breastfeeding and who is listening to those various groups. If these authors are promoting junk science, guess who's listening to them...yep a major candidate for the Presidency of the U.S. This man is also of some influence in the Democratic party. Who's reading this book and how will they regard breastfeeding? We(in the U.S.)have no national policy on breastfeeding, nor a national breastfeeding coordinator. Is it partly because some of us believe that breastfeeding is not a political issue. What politicians believe to be true will effect policies/laws that are written. If some politicians believe that breastfeeding is dangerous because of chemical contamination, then we will see policies/laws that reflect this believe. We, who are breastfeeding advocates, need to know what is believed by our politicians and how to direct them to better information. According to the book, health officials in another country have already influenced women to quit breastfeeding because of chemical contamination. The end result an infant hospitalized because the mother used a substitute that was onfit for infant consumption. If this is off-topic, then I guess I had better spend my time finding a new occupation. Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC *********************************************** 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