Nancy, You wrote, "I am getting very concerned about the tendency to dismiss anyone who has anything to do with artificial milk as biased, unethical or intellectually dishonest. Some of the statements are bordering on libel..." My understanding of libel is that libel is making "false" statements with the intent to harm the reputation of another person. The statements I made about Dr. Ziegler in that post were referenced. He was the author of a research paper in which they state their funding and in particular state that he received funding for speaking from various infant formula companies. The HMBANA website does state he is an advisor and a newspaper article describes him as a medical director to the Iowa human milk bank. NO WHERE in my post did I state or describe HMBANA as "sell-outs." That is your wording, not mine. NO WHERE in that post or in any other post to Lactnet have I written about Paula Meier. I did not know that she received funding from Ross. No WHERE in any post have I described anyone as unethical or intellectually dishonest. Again, these are your words. You wrote, "Of course I would prefer that no research on nutrition is done with formula company money, but as long as there is honest disclosure of support and involvement, I can live with reality." We are all living with the infant formula reality. I would suggest that having people who are paid by the infant formula industry involved in human milk banking is an entirely different situation than having your research funded by the infant formula industry. Valerie W. McClain *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html