This is patent application # 20030213007 by Charles Slattery, et al and filed
last year.  It's called "Human milk produced by human mammary tissue
implanted in non-human host animals and uses thereof."  They used human breast tissue
from reduction mammoplasty and placed it in a "non-human animal host."
Slattery has other patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office that have been
accepted on genetically engineered human milk proteins for use in infant formula.
But this is taking it one step further.  Of course the rationale is that our
world--developed and developing nations-- has to have infant formula and so we
might as well have the  very best  infant formula possible.  (Patenting is a
costly endeavor, so I wouldn't regard it as a joke)  Are we living in a "Brave
New World"  or "Animal Farm?"
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC


patent application #20030213007
"Human milk from these animals can be collected and processed for storage or
fed immediately to an infant as a replacement for mother's milk. In
underdeveloped countries, a few goats, cows, or sheep carrying functional human mammary
cells could supply all the human milk necessary in a village, in situations
where mothers could not breast feed. For developed areas, large amounts of milk
will be collected from transgenic/xenogeneic cows, sterilized and packaged for
bottle feeding of infants who might otherwise need to be fed with infant
formula. For purposes of clarification, "human milk" as used herein, including in
the claims, refers to milk produced by human mammary cells in chimeric
milk-producing tissue, where human milk of the present invention may include a small
amount of non-human biological material from the host animal and/or may
include a small amount of non-human genetic material, or a polypeptide encoded
thereby, present in a genetic construct used for transformation of human cells or
host animal cells."

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