<The infant formula industry has an investment in creating or magnifying
that need. HIV/AIDS would be a good example of how the industry has used
a health care problem to sway public health authorities. . . . .. We are
willing to build/support labs around the country to test human milk for
toxins but not willing to build/support human milk banking. This seems to
reflect our fears. Yet, our society sees no need to test individual cans
of infant formula. Obviously we have more faith in the man-made product.
Most people have no fear about using infant formula. We accept its safety
without proof. But human milk has to prove itself over and over again and
still we have doubts. >

Valerie, you frame the picture so clearly. You are in the vanguard of our
profession. Please be aware that many of us are definitely listening to
you and just haven't figured out how we can fit in individually to impact
the situation beyond a local mother-to-mother basis, nor work effectively
as a group, on the many-tentacled corporate and bureaucratic forces
threatening to further engulf us all, every passing day. Please never get
discouraged, and keep up the consiousness-raising of the hue and cry. I
still liken you to Rachel Carson and "The Silent Spring". She heralded
that battle, and it hasn't been won yet!

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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