From Barbara Wilson-Clay [excerpted]:  "Our "research" milk is typically
offered to adults with serious medical conditions, and has even been used to
foster orphaned animals.  It is shocking to me that there would be an effort
to seek to discredit this work."

I missed the wording of the post to which Barbara is responding. I cannot
imagine that anyone means to discredit the work she mentions--to do so would
be a terrible disservice to humanity.  Milk banks are our hope for the
future. I myself hold the position that we have enough women in the world to
support milk banks to the exclusion of supporting formula corporations.
Let's do it now.

There is no medical function, use, or need for animal or vegetable formula.
Even special purpose formula can be made--at an improvement to infant health
and to the environment--from human milk.

However, I do think there are fears about other, sinister, uses to which the
donated milk may be put. What we need is a guarantee against formula
corporation malfeasance--and given their history, this guarantee needs to
have some serious teeth in it.

Arly Helm, MS, Nutrition and Food Sciences; IBCLC

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