I think at the time when most LN subscribers were getting homemade mixtures
of milk and carbohydrates they weren't distinguishable from the ready made
commercially available products.

The food industry is huge and they have learned a few things about milk.
The protein in human milk is one third casein and two thirds whey, while the
opposite ratio exists in bovine milk.  The essential amino acids required
for life are distributed in both parts of the protein portion of the milk.
One challenge for the manufacturers of breastmilk substitutes has always
been how to get sufficient amounts of the essential amino acids in their
products while reducing the casein portion so that the ratio of casein to
whey is more like human milk.  This ratio is what is responsible for the
very fine curds formed in a baby's stomach from breastmilk, compared to the
coarser ones in commercial products or the very large clumps of casein from
cow's milk.

If you read back through old adverts from a single company, you will see
that they at any given time boast that their product is much closer to
normal human baby milk than anything else on the market.  Then they say
something to diss all other products, nobody would want to give their child
that rot, etc etc, even when one of the products they are dissing is their
own *previous* state of the art formula.

We could in truth say that today's commercially manufactured breastmilk
substitutes are still as inferior as ever to breastmilk, but at a much more
sophisticated level.  Especially in light of the number of unwanted events
in the artificial milk industry all the time, we should remember that buying
breastmilk substitutes today is no guarantee of safety, in any way nor on
any parameter.  Every baby living on a diet other than exclusive
breastfeeding is more vulnerable than s/he would have been if fully
breastfed.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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