> > Women need to read less articles like these and more about how commercial > breastmilk is becoming. The biotech people know how good breastmilk is and > they are using that knowledge to make medicines and formula. Why do we have > patents for human milk components? Between the media, the government and the > pharmaceutical industry women are being bombarded with reasons to not > breastfeed. The reason has everything to do with the making of profits. We > need to start asking why the government has such lousy information on > breastfeeding but quietly has interests in patents on human milk components. > Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC Pharming is connected to Numico. Surprise? Gonneke *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html