The case for commercialising breast milk
Debate also intense if women should be paid for giving milk or if they should donate it altruistically
Los Angeles
WHEN Gretty Amaya took an unpaid maternity leave five months ago, she started what she calls a part-time job to help pay the bills. Ms Amaya, who lives in Miami, has made more than US$2,000 so far by pumping breast milk and selling what is left over after feeding her baby daughter.
Frozen milk from Ms Amaya - and from hundreds of other women - is flown here to what resembles a pharmaceutical factory. Inside, it is concentrated into a high-protein product fed to extremely premature babies in neonatal intensive care units, at a cost of thousands of dollars a baby.
Breast milk, that most ancient and fundamental of nourishments, is becoming an industrial commodity, and one of the newest frontiers of the biotechnology industry - even as concerns abound over this fast-growing business. The company th…
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