>For that matter, is home pasteurization _that_ difficult?<

I have never done it, but there are a variety of skills here.  If we apply this
to non-Western countries (this came up in the context of HIV), then, yes, its
difficult.

Imagine living where fuel is scare and obtaining it represents not just money,
which you have to earn by hard labour, but by hard work fetching and carrying.
Imagine living where you don't boil a kettle many times a day (for tea, coffee,
etc).  Imagine the cultural leap you have to have if you are not brought up in
our society to believe that there are little invisible things which grow where
you can't see them, but can harm your health -- and the people who tell you this
don't value your traditional beliefs about what causes ill health, what ill
health is, etc., etc.

Indeed, one of the many reasons I chose not to bottle feed my babies was that I
had no faith that *I* could cope with the sterilizing, measuring, following the
rules with huge penalties attached....When I cook, I slap stuff around and I
*cannot* do cakes.  I suspect most cooks in most of the world tend to come from
this school.  Thus all the 'foundation skills' for bottle/cup feeding with any
safety may be lacking.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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