Katherine, You wrote:

"I received this morning a request from a scientist to distribute information
to a large group of new parents I have contact with.  The information is a
request for donations of excess milk to be hand fed to primates who are
either orphaned or abandoned.  These primates are part of a research
facility.

Would you help the person requesting this information be distributed?"

Absolutely not.  At this point in time with 700 patents on human milk
components and 200 applications, it is quite obvious that alot of bioprospecting is
taking place with human milk.  Until we have some sort of regulation regarding
the use of human milk in research, the gifting of human milk to researchers is
like giving them free access to a gold mine.

Why don't they give them artificial baby milk?  Hospitals give human infants
free infant formula, why don't they ask Nestle for the very best?
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC







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