Dairy cows are driven to the extreme biological limits of their capacity for
milk-making for financial reasons. Every single mammary cell is working
full-tilt, overtime, round the clock, to make money for the farmer. Dairy
scientists get paid well for calculating how to produce the most bovine milk
for the least expenditure of money, and they've been tinkering with the
equations for decades. Entire universities (or entire departments of large
universities) exist solely to study animal lactation.

Women typically use only about 2/3 of their total capacity for lactation to
synthesize enough milk for one baby. Most of us are essentially loafing when
we're nursing just one, and could easily double milk volume per day with not
much extra effort. Of course a few women are at the skinny end of the "bell
curve" on this, as well as other biological processes. But the majority of
women falls under the large part of the bell curve, and can easily increase
milk synthesis by more frequent and thorough milk removal.

Politics creeps in here, too. Most legitimate dairy scientists know full
well how women produce milk. However, if they're hired by a formula company,
they get paid to help the company make money selling modified cow's milk.
This is simple employment principles: when anyone works for a boss, they
WORK for their employer - so the truth about human lactation gets put on a
back shelf and ignored (or worse).

Who gets paid to study human lactation?

Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC
Bright Future Lactation Resource Centre www.bflrc.com
6540 Cedarview Ct., Dayton, OH 45459-1214 USA
(937) 438-9458 email [log in to unmask]

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