There's nothing new about this, despite the report. Years ago goat's milk 
was used for artificial feeding in dry, inland areas of Australia and 
southern Africa, and it appeared as a recommended food "in the dry west" in 
mother books distributed to new mothers by the state Maternal and Child 
Welfare service in Queensland and at least one other state in Australia, in 
the post-war period.  Mothers were to home-modify it to a recipe suppled by 
the baby health clinic.  As for southern Africa, I remember a public health 
medical doctor who opened two conferences I attended in South Africa, in 
1996 and 1998, telling his usual story about his neighbours in his home 
village, who were fed goat's milk in infancy and "grew up to be big, 
strapping boys" (or similar wording).  (This was at breastfeeding 
conferences!)  The anecdote from southern Africa would have been from what 
he saw in the 1940s-1950s, perhaps early-1960s.

Apart from potential allergenitity in children with cow's milk protein 
allergy, as in the link from Nikki, goat's milk is deficient in folate (from 
memory). This must be okay for goat kids as it is their species-specific 
milk - but it isn't for human kids. I believe commenrcial goat baby 
"formula" has this deficiency corrected, whereas recipes for making it at 
home don't.

Just a reminder about other formulations of artificial foods for infants and 
the use of language. Semantics are indeed important.  Soy "milk", including 
soy infant-feeding products, is promoted as "lactose free", because that 
sounds positive - whereas "lactose deficient" (especially if used to label 
products for infants) would make consumers think. Well, it might make them 
think.

Virginia
in Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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Nikki Lee wrote:

> Humans want other mammals to feed their babies.
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